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BY 



JOSEPH HILL MAN 



"Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. 
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces ; that ye may tell it to the 
generation following." — Psalm xlviii : 12, 13. 



1888. 

Published by Joseph Hillman, 

Troy, N. Y. 





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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888. by 

Joseph Hillman, 

in tne office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

All rights reserved. 



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535 Pearl Street, 

New York. 



DEDICATED 

TO THE 

MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 

IN TROY, N. Y., 

WITH WHOM I HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED IN 

RELIGIOUS WORK SINCE 

MY BOYHOOD. 



[CORRESPOiNDENCE OF THE TROY CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY J. 

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. , Nov. 28, 1887. 
Joseph Hillman, Esq., 

Dear Sir: — At the meeting of the Troy Conference Historical 
Society, held at Round Lake, N. Y. , a few days ago, on motion of 
the Rev. H. C. Farrar, D. D. , you were invited to deliver an address 
before the society on the origin and development of Methodism in 
Troy, at such a date as might be convenient for you to comply with 
the request. Yours ^ 

B. Hawley, 
President of Troy Conf. Hist. Soc. 

Troy, N. Y. , November 29, 1887. 
Rev. B. Hawley, D. D. , 

Dmr Sir; — I shall with no little pleasure undertake the prepara- 
tion of an historical sketch of the origin and growth of Methodism 
in Troy as requested by you, and when the inviting task shall have 
been completed I shall notify you of my readiness to comply with the 
request. With much respect, 

I am yours, 

Joseph Hillman. 

At the close of the semi - annual meeting of the 
Troy Conference Historical Society, held in the State 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in Troy, N. Y., on 
January 19, 1888, Mr. Hillman read parts of his man- 
uscript prepared by him at the request of the society. 
On motion of the Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, the following 
resolution was adopted : 

"■Resolved, That the thanks of this society be tendered to Brother Joseph 
Hillman for his exceedingly interesting and valuable address, and that he be 
requested to complete his account of Methodism in Troy and publish it in 
book form." 



Preface. 



In attempting to present the different lights and 
shadows which have fallen upon Methodism in Troy, 
I have been governed by the thought that by carefully 
describing the circumstances of the little band of 
Christian men and women who organized the first 
Methodist society in Troy, and by judiciously portray- 
ing its growth from year to year, and by occasionally 
relating such incidents as conspicuously illustrated its 
life and development, I should succeed in placing the 
mother of the eight other flourishing Methodist 
societies in the foreground of this history, which all 
will acknowledge by parental right she should occupy. 
The histories of the later organized societies, the reader 
will perceive, have been written with no less pains- 
taking to make them comprehensive and interesting. 
The scanty information contained in the records of 
several of the societies has caused the writer to regret 
his inability to give more particulars concerning the 
histories of those churches. Whatever important 
data he could obtain he has made use of, both in the 



viii PREFACE. 

general text and in the statistics. The valuable tables 
and other summaries will likewise be appreciated by 
the reader. The prominence of the writer's name in 
some parts of the work should not hastily be assumed 
as egotism on his part, but as an unavoidable conse- 
quence of his purpose to afford all the information 
which might be desired respecting the subject treated 
by him. 

The available benefits of such sources of informa- 
tion as the " Rise of Methodism in Troy," by Phebe 
Curtis, the " Historical Sermon " of the Rev. Erastus 
Wentworth, D. D., preached in the old brick State 
Street Church, on Thanksgiving Day, 1866, the 
" Memorial Discourse " of the Rev. George W. Brown, 
delivered in the same building previous to its demo- 
lition, and the several local histories of A. J. Weise, 
M. A., I desire to mention here as having been of 
much advantage to me in the preparation of this work. 
I am under many obligations also to the Rev. J. E. 
Bowen and other persons, who have kindly furnished 
me with valuable papers and memoranda. 

The fine engravings illustrating the work were made 
by the Moss Engraving Company, of New York, from 
photographs of buildings taken by James Irving, and 
of persons taken by James H. Lloyd of this city. The 
engraving of the members of the Troy Conference, 



PREFACE. ix 

forming- a group of nearly two hundred persons, is 
one of so great excellence that it merits special com- 
mendation. If I have succeeded in accomplishing the 
pleasant task assigned me by the Troy Conference 
Historical Society, I shall not deem my time and labor 
to have been uselessly expended. 

JOSEPH HILLMAN. 

Troy, N. Y m July 2, 1888. 



Illustrations. 



i. "Joseph Hillman, frontispiece. 

2. Members of the Troy Conference, 1888-89, " " xvl 

3. Rensselaer County Court House, 1807, - - 21 

4. First Methodist Meeting-house in Troy, 1809, - - 26' 

5. State Street M. E. Brick Church, 1827, - - 51 

6. State Street M. E. Stone Church and Chapei, - - 69 
7 Pawling Avenue M. E. Church, - 84 

8. Fifth Avenue (North Second Street) M. E. Church, - 89 

9. Levings M. E. Church and Parsonage, - - 95 

10. Third Street M. E. Church, - - - 99, 

11. Trinity (Congress Street) M. E. Church, - - 103 

12. Residence of Isaac Hillman, - 106 

13. Isaac Hillman, - 109 

14. Grace (Vail Avenue) M. E. Church, - - - 113 

15. First German M. E. Church, - - - 115 

16. A. M. E Zion Church. - - - - - 119^ 

17. Members of the Troy Praying Band, 1859, Plate 1. 

Barker, Thomas, Hall, Rev. George A. 

Bennett, Lyman Harris, William 

Bristol, George Hillman, Joseph 

Farrar, Rev. H. C. Howland, Gardner 

Gregory, Rev. G. H. McPherson, Alexander 

Travis, Jacob 137- 

18. Members of the Troy Praying Band, 1859, Plate 2. 

Bates, John C. Osbon, Rev. E. S. 

Carlin, Thomas Quackenbush, R. 

Coburn, Robert Smith, W. L. 

Hawxhurst, Rev P. R. Usher, Bloomfield 

Merchant, G. W. (Albany) Usher, sr., John 

Merchant, G. W. (Troy) Usher, jr., John 138 

19. Members of the Troy Praying Band, 1869. 

Bennett, H. W. Howland, G. 

Coburn, R Howland, Rev. E. C. 

Devol, Rev. J. Hull, L. 

Harris, W McPherson, A. 

Hillman, J. Senter, Rev. M. A. 

Holman, D. C. Smith, Sanford 

Van Cott, E. B. 14 r 



ILLUSTRATIONS. xi 

20. Members of the Troy Praying Band, 1888. 

Barker, T. Hartshorn, E. A. 

Brainerd, Rev. C. Hillman, J. 

Curtis, H. C. Hull, L. 

Foster, W. Hurd, R. B. 

French, R. Morey, C. E. 

Harris, W. Slason, Rev. J. L. 

Smith, W. E. 145 

21. Officers of the Troy Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 

1887-88. 

Bascom, Mrs. H. C. Farrar, Mrs. H. C. 

Beiermeister, Mrs. F. Graham, Mrs. H. 

Carnrick, Mrs. P. Griffin, Mrs. W. 

Clark, Mrs. J. H. Henderson, Miss F. 

Converse, Mrs. P. W. Hillman, Mrs. J. 

Curtis, Mrs. H. C. Hulburt, Mrs. C. W. 

Curtis, Mrs. S. Lyon, Mrs. A. D. 

Daboll, Mrs. W. C. Quackenbush, Mrs. J. T. 

Davis, Miss Mary Simpson, Mrs. E. W. 

'Wood, Mrs. J. W. 158 

22. Mrs. Ordelia M. Hillman, - - - 162 

23. Mrs. Lucy S. Sawyer, - - - - 165 

24. Officers of the Methodist Ladies' Aid Societies in Troy, 

1887-88. 

Atwell, Mrs. J. L. Harriot, Mrs M. J. 

Benedict, Mrs. C. Hastings, Mrs. G. C. 

Birchmore, Mrs. S. C. Hawley, Mrs. C. R. 

Bissell, Mrs. C. W. Hillman, Mrs. J. 

Blake, Mrs. G. E. House, Mrs. E. O. 

Cary, Mrs. S. T. Ide, Mrs. J. C. 

Curtis, Miss Jessie M. McPherson, Mrs. J. A. 

Dow, Mrs. P. L Rush, Mrs. R. 

Graham, Mrs. H. Van Alstyne, Mrs. G. 

Greenwood, Mrs. W. Warner, Miss Jessie L. 

Haller, Mrs. J. P. Wheeler, Mrs. N. A. 171 

25. Pastor, Trustees, and Stewards of the State Street 

M. E. Church, 1874. 

Rev. H. D. Kimball, 

Avery, L. R. Douglass, G. L. 

Belden, E. Faulkner, Jonas. 

Cary, S. T. Jones, Octavous 

Cluett, Edmund Morey, M. W. 

Cluett, George B. Morris, G. W. 

Cluett, J. W. A. Peabody, S. J. 

Cluett, Robert Peckham, Reuben 

Converse, P. W. Stone, G. A. 179 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



26. Members of the Official Board of the State Street 
M. E. Church, 1887-88. 



Archibald, J. C. 
Aveiy, L. R. 
Belden, E. 
Bontecou, D. F. 
Burrows, E. A. 
Cluett, F. H. 
Cluett, W. 
Converse, P. W. 
Crampton, A. 
Crandell, J. 
Fellows, A. C. 
Hillman, J. 



Horton, G. W. 
House, E. O. 
Klock, jr., D. 
Mallory, S. 
Mann, W. H. 
Morey, C. E. 
Morey, M. W. 
Patterson, T. W. P. 
Peckham, W. M. 
Podmore, J. W. F. 
Sawyer, Rev. J. E. C. 
Stone, G. A. 



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27 Members of the Official Board of the Pawling Avenue 
M. E. Church, 1887-88. 
Clark, Rev. J. H. Hollister, W. H. 

Craver, W. Pettit, G. W. 

De Freest, J. Snyder, A. 

Fredericks, A. Youmans, I. N. 

Hastings, G. C. Vandenburgh, C. H. 

Henderson, J. Weatherwax, G. 

Wendell, P. 



208 



28. Members of the 

M. 
Banker, A. D 
Benedict, C. H 
Bogardus, I. 
Boutwell, O. 
Bunce, A. A. 
Curtis, H. C. 
Ford, H. 
Ide, J. C. 
Gray, C. B. 
Hewett, R. W. 
Hughes, G. 
Hurd, R. B. 
Leggett, J. 

29. Members of the 

M. 
Birkenshaw, L. 
Bowns, G. M. 
Bord, S. 
Clay don, W. 
De Freest, J. 
Golledge, K. 
Greer, D. 
Haller, Rev. J. 



Official Board of the Fifth Avenue 
E. Church, 1887-88. 

Leggett, J. A. 

Lyon, A. D. 

Pettit, P. S. 

Pike, W. H. 

Pulis, A. W. 

Rowe, W. H. 

Rowley, C. W. 

Simpson, E. W. 

Streeter, L. D. 

Van Alstyne, G. W. 

Waldron, E. D. 

Whited, A. 

Wood, S. L. 
Official Board of the Third Street 
E. Church, 1887-88. 

Hayes, J. 

Hislop, T. W. 

Klock, jr., D. 

Patterson, T. W. P. 

Shetland, J. 

Shroder, C. J. 

Taylor, S. L. 
P. Vipond, B. 

Weston, J. 



215 



229 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



30. Members of the Official Board of Trinity M. E. Church, 

1887-88. 



Allen, S. P. 
Austin, J. C. 
Beiermeister, jr., F. 
Bickford, I. 
Bounds, J. H. 
Bussing, I. S. 
Cary, G. W. 
Clint, A. 
Crannell, J. 
Dow, Rev. P. L. 
Edwards, E. 



Edwards, T. 
Edwards. W. H. 
Foster, W. 
Hillman, J. 
Hulbert, C. W. 
Kennedy, H. S. 
Manning, W. H. 
McPherson, J. A. 
Roth, L. 
Siblev, N. H. 
Smith, W. E. 



Wood, J. W. 235 

31. Members of the Official Board of Levings M. E. Church, 

1887-88. 
Can, William Duftv, J. 

Cole, Robert Her, J. H. 

Craver, L. Jones, F. 

Craver, P, H. Herzog, C. J. 

Curtis, S. R. Pagett, M. 

Danks, R. Shaver, N. 

Downs, S. Smith, J. 

Dufty, D. Travell, J. K. 248 

32. Members of the Official Board of Grace (Vail Avenue) 

M. E. Church, 1887-88. 



Ames, J. A. 
Atwell, Rev. J. L. 
Bascom, Chester 
Bascom, H. C. 
Bennett, W. 
Blake, G. E. 
Bond, G. F. 
Bristol, D. N. 
Burch, L. 
Cam rick, G. W. 
Camrick, P. 
Clark, C. H. 



Cooper, B. 
Davis, C. B. 
Fry, E. A. 
Glasson, J. 
Humphrey, I. P. 
Lansing, N. 
Nichols, I. 
Palmer, A. E. 
Sherwood, E. B. 
Vandervoort, F. D. 
Wheeler, W. 
Wheeler, W. M. 



Wooster, J. N. 

33. Members of the Official Board of the First German 

M. E. Church, 1887-88. 



256 



Beiermeister, sr. , F. 
Eppelle, sr. , F. 
Fischer. A. 
Hass, H. 
Hess, sr. . W. 
Keller, J. 
Kreiss, H. 



Kurth, Rev. W. H. 
Richter, L. 
Ruth, P. 
Schaal, L, 
Schmah, H. 
Warnken. H. 
Xander, G. J. 



269 



xiv ILLUSTRATIONS. 

34. Members of the Official Board of the A. M. E. Zion Church, 

1887-88. 

Archer, W. S. Jackson, P. M. Kemp, H. 

Birchmore, Rev. S. C. Gidney, C. T. Kemp, W. 
Davis, J. H. Kemp', J. A. Scott, W. A. 

Trustees in Trust. 
Hillman, J. House, E. O. Curtis, H. C. 276 

35. Deceased Methodist Ministers. 

(It was not possible to procure pictures of all the ministers belonging in this class.) 

Barber, Lorenzo Maffitt, J. Newland 

Bedell, William Meeker, Berea O. 

Bidwell, Ira G. Phillips, Zebulon 

Brown, George J. Pomeroy, Benjamin 

Brown, Stephen D. Senter, M. Alverson 

Chichester, Elijah Seymour, Truman 

Coleman, Seymour Spicer, Tobias 

Dow, Lorenzo Starks, Desevignia 

Farr, Alfred A. Steele, Allen 

Goss, Ephraim Stout, Edward S. 

Howe, Samuel Stover, Ensign 

Hulburd, David P. Washburn, Sanford 

Levings, Noah Wentworth, Erastus 283 

36. Methodist Ministers Stationed in Troy in 1887-88. 

Atwell, J. L. Haller, J. P. 

Birchmore, S. C. Hawlev, C. R. 

Clark, J. H. Kurth/ W. H. 

Dow, P. L. McKean, S. (P. E. ) 

Graham, H. Meeker, W. H. 

Sawyer, J. E. C. 301 

^j. Methodist Ministers Stationed in Troy prior to 1885. 

(All the ministers were invited to appear at a given time to be photographed 
but the following only could be present.) 

Braman, E. A. Groat, W. H. 

Brown, George W. Loomis, B. B. 

Fallon, J. G. Meredith, Samuel 

Farrar, H. C. Quinlan, J. Wesley 

Griffin, William Thompson, J. Wesley 

Williams, S. M. 305 

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HISTORY 



METHODISM IN TROY, 



he eminent Scottish divine, the Rev. Thomas 
Chalmers, D.D., once said, that Methodism was 
Christianity in earnest. I think that is not only true, 
but I call it aggressive Christianity. It not only enters 
the great centers of population, but it finds its way to 
the distant frontiers of civilization. It crosses the wide 
seas and preaches salvation through Christ in the 
uttermost parts of the earth. Its zealous itinerants and 
its devout missionaries are now calling sinners to re- 
pentance on every continent and inhabited island of 
the globe, 

It had its birth in the university town of Oxford, 
England, in 1729. There John Wesley, then twenty- 
six years of age, a Fellow of Lincoln College, and his 
younger brother, Charles, a tutor in Christ Church 
College, and two of their companions began reading 
together the Holy Scriptures in the languages in which 
they were originally written, and in exemplifying in 
their daily conduct and conversation the teachings of 
the Saviour. 
2 



2 METHODISM IN TROY. 

At that time the religious condition of the people of 
England was deplorable. Worldliness and intemper- 
ance debased the clergy, and dissipation and profligacy 
disgraced the churchmen. The Church of England 
was spoken of as "a fair carcass," and its ministers as 
being " under more contempt than those of any other 
church in all Europe," It would seem no wonder then 
that John Wesley, an ordained priest of the Estab- 
lished Church, and his three associates should attract 
the attention of the university men by regularly 
attending church services, visiting the sick, befriending 
the needy, and deporting themselves as Christians. 
Neither was it strange that their piety should be derided 
and their society be burlesqued by the designation 
the " Holy Club." Nor was it less remarkable that the 
systematic way in which they accomplished the duties 
undertaken by them and the methodical manner in 
which they devoted themselves to the service of Him 
who went about doing good, should obtain for them 
the sarcastic name of Methodists from *the students. 

These aspersive titles did not, however, abate the 
zeal and application of the members of the " Holy 
Club." Other students joined the society, among whom, 
in 1732, was James Hervey, afterward the well-known 
author of " Meditations and Contemplations." After 
John and Charles Wesley had gone to America in 1735, 
as missionaries, at the request of Governor Oglethorpe, 
the founder of the colony of Georgia, George Whitefield 
became the leader of the " Holy Club." He was or- 
dained a priest of the Church of England, in 1736. At 



METHODISM IN TROY. 3 

the invitation of John Wesley to assist him in his mis- 
sionary work among the colonists and Indians, he 
embarked for America, and found on his arrival at the 
new settlement that John Wesley had shortly before 
sailed for England. Not long afterward he also return- 
ed home, where he encountered such opposition to his 
earnest preaching as the closing of the church-doors 
against him. This contempt of the Church of England 
induced him to preach outdoors, for, as he said, " I 
thought that it might be doing the service of my 
Creator, who had a mountain for his pulpit, and the 
heavens for a sounding board, and who, when his 
gospel was rejected by the Jews, sent his servants into 
the highways and hedges." On February 17, 1739, he 
began his famous career as a field-preacher, and on 
that day discoursed to a gathering of coal miners at 
Kingswood, near Bristol. When John Wesley heard 
of this daring departure from the appointed ways of 
the Church of England, he was greatly shocked, for he 
was an ardent supporter of the authority of the church 
and a rigid respecter of the rules governing its services. 
When, however, he learned of the success of the elo- 
quent evangelist, and of the eager crowds of hearers 
repeatedly gathered about the Methodist preacher, 
Wesley himself became convinced of the importance 
of entering into this limitless field of ever-ripening 
harvests and of reaping the clustered grain before it 
shattered and fell to the ground never to be gathered 
in the kingdom of heaven. He then determined to 
labor in like manner and to declare the way of 



4 METHODISM IN TROY. 

salvation wherever there might be people to hear it 
gladly. Spurred by this resolution, he preached out- 
doors at Bristol to an assembly of three thousand 
persons. Thinking that he had brought more obloquy 
upon himself than Whitefield by trangressing the rules 
of the church, he remarked, " I submitted to be more 
vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings 
of salvation." Charles Wesley, after some hesitation, 
also resolved to participate in the evangelistic work. 
After preaching at Moorfields, he said, " My load was 
gone, and all my doubts and scruples; God shone on 
my path, and I knew this was His will concerning me." 
The success of the labors of these forerunners of Meth- 
odism in different parts of Great Britain need not be 
adverted to, nor the mental and bodily affliction they 
humbly bore when defamed, assailed by mobs, and 
confined in prisons. 

One of the most distinct features of early Methodism 
was the organization, by John Wesley, of societies of 
converts, in order to have them " pray together, to 
receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one 
another in love." In them, worthy and intelligent lay- 
men found fields of labor which not only developed 
their own growth in grace, but made them appreciated 
and zealous assistants of the active preachers. 

LAY PREACHERS. 

The beginning of lay-preaching had its rise about 
the year 1742, in one of these societies in the City of 
London. Belonging to it was Thomas Maxfield, who 
had been converted at Bristol. He had been appointed 



METHODISM IN TROY. 5 

by John Wesley to lead in prayer and to be an exhorter 
in the society. While Wesley was away from the city, 
the gifted layman exceeded his instructions and preach- 
ed from a text with pleased acceptance to the mem- 
bers. This information having been conveyed to 
Wesley, he returned to London, and with some evident 
dissatisfaction said to his mother, "Thomas Maxfield 
is turned preacher, I find." To this seeming interroga- 
tion, she replied, "John, you know what my sentiments 
have been ; you cannot suspect me of readily favoring 
anvthinor of this kind; but take care what you do in 
respect to this young man, for he is as surely called of 
God to preach as you are." Thus prepared to discover 
the qualifications of Thomas Maxfield, Wesley listened 
to his preaching and soon perceiving his ability, per- 
mitted him to declare before still larger audiences the 
unsearchable riches of God's grace. 

FIRST METHODIST SOCIETY IN AMERICA. 

The remarkable preaching of George Whitefield in 
the English colonies in America between the years 
1738 and 1770, in which period he crossed the Atlantic 
thirteen times, justly entitled him to the distinction 
of being the Forerunner of Methodism in this country. 
In 1770, the year of his death at Newburyport, 
Mass., he preached to "larger congregations than 
ever" in the City of New York, and afterward 
ascended the Hudson as far as Albany, the most 
northern settlement in the province. 

The first Methodist society in America was organ- 
ized, in New York City, in 1766. by Philip Embury, a 



6 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Methodist layman, an Irish immigrant, who had been 
converted under the preaching of John Wesley in 
1752, and afterward received the appointment of a 
local preacher. It is related that his cousin, a pious 
woman named Barbara Heck, was once shocked by 
seeing some persons who had been converted in 
Ireland, playing a game with cards. Her indignation 
was so great that she snatched them from the hands of 
the players and tore them into pieces. Hastening to 
the home of Embury she begged him to begin preach- 
ing at once. Observing his hesitation in promising 
compliance with her request, she is said to have moved 
him to make an appointment for a meeting by declar- 
ing : " You must preach, or we shall all go to hell 
together, and God will require our blood at your hands." 
After preaching at the appointed time at his house in 
Barrack Street, now Park Place, he formed a class of 
the four persons who had constituted his audience. 
Captain Thomas Webb, one of the few British officers 
who had escaped the perils of Braddock's defeat in 
1755, and who, in 1765, had been converted through 
Wesley's preaching in Bristol, England, was in 1 766 hold- 
ing the position of barrack- master at the fort at Albany, 
in this state. Hearing of Philip Embury's preaching, he 
visited New York City in the spring of 1767. He at 
once became closely identified with the little society of 
Methodists, and besides being a good preacher he 
liberally assisted the small congregation in building, in 
1768, on John Street, the first Methodist meeting- 
house erected in this country. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 7 

The change of residence made by Philip Embury, in 
1770, by his settling at Camden, six miles north of 
Ashgrove, and about the same distance from Cam- 
bridge, in Washington County, led to the organization 
of a Methodist society there by the zealous local 
preacher. In 1788, the first Methodist church erected 
within the present limits of the Troy Conference was 
built at Ashgrove, on the Cambridge circuit, which was 
established that year. 

FIRST CIRCUITS ON THE UPPER HUDSON. 

New City, now known as Lansingburgh, was also 
designated a circuit that year, and to it Samuel Q. 
Talbot was appointed. These two circuits and four 
others were included in the district north of New York, 
extending about two hundred and fifty miles northward 
from New Rochelle, near the city, to Shoreham, on 
Lake Champlain. The Rev. Freeborn Garrettson was 
appointed presiding elder of the district by the confer- 
ence of 1788. The great extent of country over which 
it was his duty to travel, and his ignorance of the 
religious condition of the people whom he was to visit, 
gave him no little anxious thought. " I was very 
uneasy in my mind," he wrote after his appointment, 
'being unacquainted with the country and an entire 
stranger to its inhabitants, there being no Methodist 
societies farther north than Westchester,* but I o-ave 
myself to earnest prayer for direction. I knew that the 
Lord was with me. In the night season, in a dream, 
it seemed to me that the whole country, up the North 

* Evidently referring to those which had the services of a regular preacher. 



8 METHODISM IN TROY. 

River as far as Lake Cham plain, east and west, was 
open to my view.'' To the young - men who were to 
enter this field of work as itinerants, " I gave directions 
where to begin, and which way to form their circuits. 
I also appointed a time for each quarterly meeting, 
requesting them to take up a collection in every place 
where they preached, and told them I should go up 
the North River to the extreme parts of the work, 
visiting the towns and cities in the way, and on my 
return, I should visit them all, and hold their quarterly 
meetings. I had no doubt but that the Lord would do 
wonders, for the young men were pious, zealous, and 
laborious." Afterward referring to the work under- 
taken by him, he wrote, "My custom was to go round 
the district every three months, and then return to New 
York, where I commonly stayed about two weeks. In 
going once around, I usually traveled about a thousand 
miles, and preached upwards of a hundred times." The 
success of his first year's work was shown in the report 
of the societies, which returned a membership of more 
than six hundred persons. 

BEGINNING OF RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN TROY. 

When the village of Troy assumed its classic name, 
in 1789, its settlers had no public building in which to 
assemble to engage in religious worship, except a small 
school house on the open plot of ground between the 
present lines of Congress, Ferry, Second, and Third 
streets. In it, and sometimes in the ball-chamber of 
Ashley's Inn, on the east side of River street, between 
Congress and Ferry streets, they often heard sermons 



METHODISM IN TROY. 9 

read on Sundays either by Dr. Samuel Gale or Col. 
Albert Pawling. As there was no bell to rino- to 
notify the villagers of such services, the conch shell 
used at the ferry was prolongedly blown to inform them. 
After the Presbyterian meeting-house was built in 
1792, on the south-east corner of First and Congress 
streets, all the settlers usually attended on Sundays 
divine services there until denominational societies 
of their own faith were organized in the village. 
However, among the two hundred and fifty inhab- 
itants of the place, in 1793, there was a number 
of zealous followers of Wesley who were meeting from 
time to time in their dwellings for prayer, singing, 
and exhortation. 

FIRST CONFERENCE RELATIONS. 

The names of these early pioneers of our church 
have unfortunately not been preserved. In 1794 the 
first attendance of Stephen Andres at their prayer- 
meetings gives distinction to his association with 
those spiritually-minded men and women. Troy was 
placed on the Cambridge circuit in 1795. The mem- 
bership of the class in the rapidly-growing village had 
in 1797 increased to thirteen persons. That year on 
the minutes of the Quarterly Conference, " Brother 
Betts is so mentioned as reporting Troy. That year 
also Jesse Boutwell, an exhorter, went from Troy to 
Waterford to visit the class there which had been 
formed as early as 1794, and of which in 1797 Caleb 
Curtis became a member and continued to be until he 
moved to Troy near the close of 1799. Lorenzo Dow, 



io METHODISM IN TROY. 

who was on the Cambridge circuit in 1798, visited the 
village and preached to the little society. 

In 1800 Troy was on the Pittsfield and Whitingham 
circuit, and Michael Coates who, with Joseph Mitchell, 
had the appointment, statedly preached in the village. 
His appointment was made by the New England 
Conference organized by the General Conference in 
1796, and embraced all the territory "in New Eng- 
land and all that part of the State of New York" lying 
"on the east side of Hudson's River." The New York 
Conference, organized in 1800 by the General Confer- 
ence, embraced within its boundaries "that part of the 
State of New York, east of the Hudson River, all of 
Connecticut, and those parts of Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, and Vermont, which were included in the 
New York districts." Its first session was held June 
16, 1 80 1, in New York City. " In 1804, its boundaries 
were so changed as to embrace New York, Pittsfield, 
Albany, and Upper Canada districts." 

The records of the New England Conference of 
1800, at which the appointment of Michael Coates 
was made, contain some interesting- and instructive 
facts respecting the pay of the preachers at that time. 
They, as it has been justly said, "offered the Gospel 
to the people ' without money and without price.' The 
receipts of each member were reported at the confer- 
ence, and after deducting his ' quarterage,' the surplus 
went toward equalizing as far as possible the deficits of 
his fellow laborers. Even private presents, whether in 
clothing or in money, were required to be reported 



METHODISM IN TROY, n 

and estimated in the apportionment. These self-sacri- 
ficing men were as one family in those days of priva- 
tion, and what little they had, they had in common ; a 
fact which is as noble an illustration of their character 
as it is a painful proof of their sufferings. 

"At the General Conference of 1800, this rule was 
altered so far as to exempt private donations from the 
estimate. Hitherto the l allowance ' had been $64, be- 
sides traveling expenses ; but the same General Confer- 
ence raised it to $80, and allowed an equal amount for 
the wife or widow of the preacher, as also $16 for each 
child under seven, and $24 for each one over seven and 
under fourteen, no provision being made for children 
after the latter age. As the General Conference at 
which these amendments were made had just been 
held," it is supposed that the allowances reported at the 
New England Conference " were rated according to the 
old rule. Hardly more than one-half of the members 
present had received the pittance of $64." One of the 
preachers received $47 another $38, and another $31. 

The pecuniary rewards of the Methodist ministers at 
the beginning of this century were not large. " The 
receipts for their 'traveling expenses' were quite small, 
as they usually started with the possession of a horse, 
and were entertained on their routes by their brethren. 
The actual cash received by them would not now be 
considered sufficient for the annual cost of clothing 
alone, though that expense has been reduced at least 
one-fourth since their day. They had no resources for 
the purchase of books, except what they obtained from 



12 METHODISM IN TROY. 

selling the denominational publications on their extend- 
ed circuits. This they did largely, not only for the 
pecuniary advantage, but for the moral influence of their 
circulation. Many of them were thorough-going col- 
porteurs as well as preachers. " 

EARLY MEMBERS OF THE TROY SOCIETY. 

Among the notable itinerants of that day was Jesse 
Lee, who, it is said, had in 1783 all New England for 
his circuit and had preached in all its states that year. 
Near the close of September, in 1800, he preached to 
the little band of Methodists in Troy, when on his way 
to New York City. Under the stated preaching of 
Michael Coates that year the society was blessed with 
a class of thirty members under the leadership of Wil- 
liam Cleveland. 

Michael Coates was possessed of a strong mind and 
sound judgment. He was a very successful minister, 
and while serving as presiding elder of West Jersey 
district he died on August 1, 18 14. His last sermon 
was preached from Rev. vn : 9 : " After this I beheld, 
and, lo a great multitude, which no man could number, 
of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, 
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed 
with white robes, and palms in their hands." While 
preaching he was favored with a pleasing prospect of 
that glory, and seemed to anticipate the joys of 
eternity. 

The class meetings during the winter of 1799 and 
1800 were evidently very interesting, for Phebe Curtis, 
the daughter of Caleb Curtis, then a young girl, who 



METHODISM IN TROY. 13 

afterward wrote a brief historical sketch of the Rise of 
Methodism in Troy, relates that she was left at home 
with the children when her father and mother attended 
class, and when she complained of the late hours at 
which they returned, they would tell her the meetings 
were "so good that they could not bear to leave them." 
Speaking of the names of the persons composing the 
class at that time, she remarks : "Among the members 
of the class there was a number of very worthy per- 
sons. They were the parents and brother of the wife 
of the Rev. Joel Ketchum, Samuel Goodrich, the prin- 
cipal of the Academy, Mrs. Honor Goodrich, Samuel 
Goodrich, jr., a dry-goods merchant ; Miss Day, a rela- 
tive of the Goodrich family, a boarder and pupil in the 
Academy, Mr. Cannon, his wife, and Mrs. Plum, the 
mother of Mrs. Cannon, and Mr. Cleveland, the class 
leader. They were from New England. Mr. Good- 
rich's family came from Middletown, Conn. Among 
the members of the class were persons of piety, refine- 
ment, and intelligence. The following were also mem- 
bers of the class in good standing, and remained so 
until removed by death or until they left Troy for other 
places : Benjamin Betts, Jane, his wife, Jared Betts, 
Mrs. Jillson, Laura Waterman, Mrs. Hannah Pettit, 
Mrs. McAlister, Mrs. B-'s mother, Mrs. Carlo, Mrs. 
Boutwell, Archibald Gray and wife, and Mina, a mulatto 
woman. I have thus been particular because it was 
asserted at a love-feast that the first society was com- 
posed of the lower order of persons, and, at the same 
time, it was said that the time was when there was no 



14 METHODISM IN TROY. 

place to hold prayer-meetings except in the basement 
of a house occupied by a black family. It is true that 
the prayer-meetings were held there sometimes. Ritta 
(the negro woman) was considered pious and had con- 
siderable gift in prayer. Her room was ample and 
decent. The person who made the statement must 
have been misinformed." 

Miss Curtis also remembered attending prayer-meet- 
ings at the Goodrich home, " in a well-furnished room,'' 
on the floor of which was an kl imported carpet " which 
was not common in those days in the best houses 
in the village. " Meetings, too, were certainly held at 
Mr. Cannon's house, under the same roof with the 
store." On New Year's day, 1800, large placards were 
posted in all the public places announcing the begin- 
ning of the new century. 

When Mr. Cleveland left for the West, in 1800 or 
1 80 1, the class paper was given to Caleb Curtis, but he 
soon after went to Vermont, where he remained some 
months. " Mr. Ferris, lately from the country, took his 
place as class-leader. At Mr. Cannon's, Mr. Ferris let 
out his strong voice in prayer, which was more than 
Mr. Plum could well bear. He placed his hand on Mr. 
Ferris' mouth to check the sound of his voice, but Mr. 
Ferris, not to be repressed in that manner, when he 
had gone out of the house, gave full vent to his voice 
by singing on his way home through a part of River 
Street. Mr. Plum, although much of a gentleman, was 
not a professor of religion. He was a brother-in-law 
of Mr. Cannon, and his partner in business." 



METHODISM IN TROY. 15 

The prosperity and growth of the Troy society were 
for several years sadly checked by the death, change 
of residence, and the declension of others through 
intemperance and sin. In 1802, the Rev. Elias 
Vanderlip, a traveling preacher, then on the Pittsfield 
circuit, became so discouraged, it is said, with the 
degenerated condition of the society, that he " tore up 
the class-paper and withdrew the appointment." (The 
writer was well acquainted with Brother Vanderlip.) 
The only worthy representatives of the society during 
this dark period were Caleb Curtis and several women. 
Phebe Curtis pays an expressive tribute to the memory 
of her Christian father whose heart and soul were 
deeply exercised by these depressive circumstances, 
:' The class dissolved, the appointments abandoned, 
dissolution seemed to reign. When in the midst of all 
this darkness, which seemed to rest upon the beloved 
names and cause of Methodism, there was one who in 
the agony of his soul sent up appeals to heaven which 
the family altar and the private retreat only witnessed. 
At times I would find myself unintentionally intruding 
into my father's place of private prayer. The move- 
ment of his body and his audible whispers were indica- 
tions of earnest importunity. He frequently availed 
himself of the privilege of the meetings of some of the 
neighboring societies, Albany and elsewhere. He 
would come home with his soul filled with the heavenly 
spirit of which he had partaken among his brethren. 
His anxious mind could not rest. He invited to our 
house the neighbors on Sabbath evenings. The room 



16 METHODISM IN TROY. 

would be filled with attentive listeners, while my father 
sung, prayed, and afterward exhorted." Then she 
tells how he kept alive the still glimmering flame of 
Methodism in the hearts of the few members of the 
society by getting from time to time some well-known 
itinerant to preach in the available room of their 
dwelling. The Rev. Samuel Howe, who was on the 
Pittsfield circuit, preached, in 1802, from the text: 
" The wages of sin is death," and Lorenzo Dow 
expounded the word of God two evenings in succession, 
when the neighbors crowded " the room and entry." 

METHODIST WITCHCRAFT. 

Miss Curtis relates a ludicrous incident to show the 
singular conceptions which some people then had of 
the character of the Methodists. " Our landlord, in 1802, 
was a German, who resided a few miles east of Troy. 
Soon after we became occupants of his house, his wife 
called upon my mother. In their conversation she 
warned my mother against Methodism, saying that it 
was a dangerous religion, that Methodists were witches, 
and that if a person were to go among them he could 
not get away from them until he had joined them. My 

mother surprised her by saying, ' Why, Mrs. C , I 

am a Methodist ! ' The old lady, terrified by this 
unexpected information, hurried out of the house with- 
out ceremony lest a spell might be put upon her before 
she could take her leave." 

In 1804, John Wright, the father of Mrs. Jefferson 
Gardner, who now lives in Lansingburgh, emigrated 
from England with his wife Hannah, and came to 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



17 



Troy. Being a stranger as well as a Methodist, he 
began making inquiries respecting the existence of a 
Methodist society in the village. One day when he 
was crossing the ferry to Gibbonsville, now West Troy, 
he was told that the last member of the Methodist 
society had been sent to state's prison. 

In i8o5, the Rev. Elijah Chichester, a zealous 
itinerant, then on the Cambridge circuit, preached at 
Caleb Curtis' house. After the service he informed 
those of his hearers who desired the reorganization of 
the society, and wished to have preaching, that if they 
would gather together " the scattered ones " and " form 
a class," that " he would come and preach to them." 
On his return to Troy, seven persons presented them- 
selves to be enrolled as members of the new class : 
Caleb Curtis and his wife Catherine, Mrs. Hannah 
Pettit, John Johnson and his wife, and John Fournear 
and his wife Jane ; Caleb Curtis being made the class- 
leader. 

In 1806, William McBurney and his wife joined the 
class. On the return of John Wright and his wife to 
Troy from Millville, where they had been living about 
fifteen months, they again made inquiries to learn the 
residence of any Methodists in the village. One day a 
colored woman informed Mrs. Wright that she knew 
an Irishman, named William McBurney, who was a 
Methodist. While in search of his house, John Wright 
heard a number of persons singing together a familiar 
Methodist hymn, and without attempting to repress his 
joyful feelings he abruptly opened the door of the 



T 8 METHODISM IN TROY. 

dwelling in which the voices were united in praise, and 
identifying the small company of men and women as 
Methodists, he gladly exclaimed, " Now I have found 
you ! " 

In April, 1807, when Phebe Curtis was converted 
and became a member of the class, its membership had 
increased to thirteen persons. From this time forward 
the society began to be vigorous and influential. In 
1808, the class-roll, not including the names previously 
entered on it, embraced those of William McBurney and 
his wife, Rebecca Mackey, the widow of John Mackey, 
Mrs. Alward, her mother, Stanley Thompson and his 
wife, David Canfield and his wife, Samuel Scoby and 
his wife, David Scoby his brother, John Wright and 
his wife, Morris DeCamp, and his wife, and Huldah 
Crans, afterward Mrs. Elias Disbrow. 

Of the names of the circuit preachers who visited 
Troy between the years i8o5 and 1809, those of 
Henry Eames, James M. Smith, Laban Clark, and 
Datus Ensign, are mentioned. " In 1808, when Seth 
Crowell and Robert Dillion were on their home mis- 
sionary tour, under the superintendence of Freeborn 
Garrettson, they came to Troy, and Robert Dillion 
preached on the common." Although " the Trojans 
were not famous for that kind of persecution, he had 
a spoiled ^gg cast at him." 

PRESBYTERIANS AND BAPTISTS. 

Reviewing this noteworthy period of the growth of 
Methodism in Troy, the faithful and well-informed 
chronicler briefly refers to the denominational work 



METHODISM IN TROY. 19 

and principles of the other churches in the village. 

"When," as she remarks, " the good Puritan stock 
came from New England, as the better part of the first 
settlers were, they brought with them good morals and 
religious order ; not that they were all devoted Christ- 
ians but conscious that good morals were essential in 
the new and growing community to the happiness and 
prosperity of the place, and conscious too that good 
morals could not be promoted where the observance 
of the Sabbath was neglected and where religious 
worship was not sustained. Hence they assembled, 
read sermons, thus preparing the way for a house of 
worship and a pastor. To the Presbyterians is due the 
credit of this first arrangement for the moral and 
religious training of the people of the place. 

" The Baptists, too, soon came. [They organized a 
Society in 1796.] Now both these churches were 
Calvinist and in both were persons of high moral and 
religious worth ; those who were ' burning and shining 
lights ' to all around them. They were known by their 
fruits. They had their books ; Hopkins, Toplady, Con- 
fession of Faith ; and the Westminster Catechism was 
taught in the schools. Now we see why it was that our 
ministers were obliged to labor so hard to dislodge 
the teachings of the two churches from the minds of 
their hearers to prepare them for the revivals they had 
reason to expect would follow. Expressions such as 
these seemed to have been freely treasured in the 
minds of the people : ' Not a drop of Christ's blood 
was ever spilled in vain ;' ' The common call and the 



20 METHODISM IN TROY. 

effectual call ;' ' Once in grace always in grace ;' ' God 
has foreordained whatever comes to pass.' ' 

Hence it is evident that it was the love of souls 
which induced the Methodist ministers to take the 
course they did, for who would think, she adds, " of 
breaking off their sins if they believed that they were 
elected, and at a certain time to be brought into the 
church by the effectual call ? Then again if doomed 
to perdition, no effort on their part would be of any 
avail." 

The Rev. Elijah Chichester, who became an 
itinerant in 1799, and was located in 1807, she relates, 
'.' stood foremost among the strong ones in pulling 
down the error which makes God a partial being by 
conferring the favor of election on some and passing 
by others, thereby giving man no choice as it regards 
his salvation. Lorenzo Dow, with his singular manner, 
ought not to be omitted. He, too, contributed ' to the 
awakening of an inquiry respecting ' the doctrine, 
spirit, and practice of the religion we professed. He 
was in Troy at different times previous to the building 
of the church. In the court-house, on a week day, at 
five o'clock, on one summer morning, he preached to 
a good congregation of Christians of different denom- 
inations from the text, ' Fear not little flock,' and in 
the afternoon of the same day, and again in the 
evening, from the words, ' Rejoice O young man in 
thy youth,' when the court-room was crowded with 
citizens of all classes. The Rev. Seth Crowell also did 
his part in removing the prejudice against Methodist 



METHODISM IN TROY. 21 

doctrine. On one occasion, while handling predesti- 
nation before a large congregation in the court-house, 
one of its friends audibly contradicted him, saying, 
i that's a lie ! ' James M. Smith was powerful in argu- 
ment against Calvinism. * * * 




RENSSELAER COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, 1807. 

" It was not all doctrine which our ministers preached 
in the pulpit. No, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, 
repentance, practical godliness, and holiness without 
which no man can see the Lord. 

" Thus the ministers already mentioned, including 
Joel Ketchum, prepared the way " for the progress of 
Methodism in Troy. " Some very worthy citizens," 
she continues, " had become interested in our doc- 



22 METHODISM IN TROY. 

trines and discipline : Dr. John Loudon, Charles 
Lemon, members of the Presbyterian Church, Abner 
Foster, from the choir of the Presbyterian Church, 
Samuel Eddy, from the Baptist choir, so that when the 
church was built, we were provided with good leaders 
of our singing." Mrs. Charles Lemon was also included 
as one of the principal singers of the church. 

" The society, from the time of its formation, in i8o5, 
until the first revival, in 1811, was remarkably blessed 
by the stability of its members. In the prayer-meet- 
ings there was very little wildness and screaming, 
neither was all the praying vocally at the same time. 
Lively meetings they were, and emphatic amens 
abounded. The groan of the burdened soul was heard 
and sometimes a burst of praise, but seldom, if ever,, 
was the voice of the person who was leading in 
prayer drowned by other voices. Another trait in the 
character of this society was the harmony which pre- 
vailed among its members. Seldom did anything 
disturb it. 

" As no quarterly meetings were held in Troy 
previous to the building of the church, there were no 
love-feasts and the sacrament [of the Lord's Supper] 
was not administered. Those who desired to enjoy 
these privileges would go as far as Ashgrove, but more 
frequently to Pittstown or Cooksborough. 

PREACHING IN BARNS. 

Henry Cook was one of the wealthy farmers whose 
kind hearts were ready to sustain the meetings, and 
whose large barns in the early days of Methodism 



METHODISM IN TROY. 23 

served on Sabbaths as churches. "In 1800 or 1801," 
Miss Curtis says, " when I was a young girl, I remember 
hearing Benjamin Stephens preach in Mr. Cook's barn. 
He preached against the practice of powdering the hair. 
He declared it was wicked to waste the beautiful grain 
which God had provided to sustain life in marring the 
beauty of one's hair." 

The inconveniences of holding meetings at the 
dwellings of the members and in the court-house were 
evidently detrimental to the strong growth of the society. 
" In the court-room," as Phebe Curtis relates, " some- 
times on summer evenings, it would be nearly nine 
o'clock before the congregation could be seated. This 
was not owing to the slackness of the brethren in making 
timely application for its use, but because the person 
who had the key, or the one who rang the bell, had no 
interest in our prosperity." 

Urged by the need of a house of worship, the mem- 
bers of the growing society assembled on November 
29, 1808, at the house of Samuel Scoby, and there, 
according to law, organized the society by electing 
David Canfield, Eliphalet King, and Samuel Scoby, 
trustees of the "Methodist Episcopal Church of the 
village of Troy." Incorporated by this name, the 
congregation began to seek a suitable site for a meet- 
ing house. On the uninclosed ground then known as 
the Common, lying east of the line of Fourth Street, 
an eligible plot was found, which was designated on 
the map of the village as lots 743 and 744. They 
were originally part of the farm of Jacob D. Van der 



24 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Heyden, which had been surveyed and laid out into 
building lots in 1807. As he had generously given to 
the Presbyterians and Baptists the ground on which 
they had built their meeting-houses, it was thought 
that if he were respectfully solicited he might be 
induced to convey lots to the society as a gift When 
he was approached it was found that he was not only 
unwilling to part with the property but personally 
opposed to the project of the society, asserting that 
the Methodists had no need of a meeting-house. Dr. 
John Loudon, a popular physician, who had begun his 
practice in the village in 1793, became greatly inter- 
ested in the welfare of the society of which in 18 10 he 
became a member, and he undertook to intercede with 
his brother-in-law to convey, for a small consideration, 
the lots to the trustees of the church. It is related 
that the business so much engaged his thoughts that 
one night he dreamed that he saw a large flock of 
pigeons fly over the village and settle down on the 
proposed site of the meeting-house. This dream he 
interpreted to presage the future prosperity of the 
church. After some further overtures, Jacob D. Van 
der Heyden consented to sell the ground for $5oo, 
demanding, however, the payment of an interest 
annually of $36 until the property was possessed by 
the purchasers. The conveyance was made on Christ- 
mas day, December 2 5, 1808. 

Eight days thereafter, or on January 2, 1809, at the 
house of Roger King, father of Harvey G. and Eliph- 
alet King, who lived on the ground where St. Paul's 



METHODISM IN TROY. 25 

Church now stands, a subscription was begun "for the 
purpose of building a meeting-house." The willing- 
ness of the members to further the undertaking to the 
best of their ability was observantly remarked by 
Phebe Curtis, whose subscription was $5, a sum larger 
than most of the individual contributions made at the 
time. (See subscription in the Appendix.) " In the 
order of Providence there were two carpenters and 
two masons (members of the church) ; Morris DeCamp 
and Eliphalet King, the carpenters, and William Mc- 
Burney and David Canfield, the masons. The hearts 
and hands of these brethren were ready to enter upon 
the building of a house where they might worship 
independent of the court-house or a crowded private 
room. And the rest of the society were ready to open 
their purses ; the poorest according to their ability. 
The Rev. Elijah Chichester and the Rev. Joel Ketchum 
were much interested. Mr. Ketchum [who entered 
the itineracy in 1793 and located several years after- 
ward] was popular and drew many people to our places 
of worship previous to the building of the church. 
These local preachers now gave their influence and 
money to assist in its erection." 

The contributions in money as written in the sub- 
scription book, a leaf of which is lost, amount to $557.82. 
Work and material aggregating a value of $20 also 
appear on its pages as contributions. With these 
limited means, which likely were not always promptly 
furnished the trustees when demanded, delayed the 
completion of the building until 181 1. 



26 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



The meeting-house, a plain, two -story weather- 
boarded structure, was built on the north side of State 
Street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, and fronted 
with its south gable State Street. When first used in 
1 8 1 1 , the building was still unfinished. It is related 
that when the appointment was made to hold services 
for the first time in the meeting-house, Charles Lemon, 
a cabinet maker, who was then a member of the 




FIRST MEETING-HOUSE, BUILT 1809. 

society, called on John Wright, living on Ida Hill, and 
said, "What are we going to do, there are no seats in 
the meeting-house?" The sententious reply was : "We 
must get some." Having obtained plank, the two 
enterprising Methodists made temporary seats, and 
rough as they were, they afforded sittings for the con- 
gregation for some time thereafter. When the church 
was fitted with more suitable furniture, the seats were 
then but plain, unpainted, pine benches, backed with a 



METHODISM IN TROY. 27 

narrow board. The pulpit was a plainly-constructed 
desk, standing on a small platform on which there were 
several chairs. When used at night, which was not 
frequently at first, the meeting-house was lighted with 
tallow candles in tin sconces hung along the walls of 
the building. Years afterward, when doorless pews were 
put in the church, the benches were placed in the gal- 
lery, which had no sittings until then. The sittings on 
the east side of the church were occupied by the women 
and girls of the congregation, and those on the west 
side by the men and boys. It not unfrequently hap- 
pened that the seats were not sufficient for the number 
of people attending the services and at such times the 
children were given seats on the kneeling-step around 
the altar. 

The surroundings of the meeting-house were not 
very inviting. Very little grass grew about it, and that 
which did was thickly set with weeds and briars. The 
small stream, which meandered from Jacob Street south- 
ward along the present line of the Union Railroad to 
the Posten Kill, often overflowed the lowland bordering 
it, leaving a strip of water on the east side of the 
church where children, in winter, found good sliding 
on the ice covering it. 

The practical teachings of the early pioneer preach- 
ers of Methodism inculcated the abandonment of all 
worldly living and indifference to the vanities of dress 
and personal adornment. Plainness of attire and mod- 
esty of demeanor were habitual to the followers of 
Wesley. The wearing of gold and silver jewelry, and 



28 .METHODISM IN TROY. 

of showy bonnets and of fashionably-made garments 
by women was looked upon with great disfavor, and 
any evidence of pride of person and circumstance was 
strongly censured. A woman or girl having a ruffle 
around her neck was not allowed to participate in a 
love-feast. The surviving daughter of John Wright 
relates that when she was a girl she wore one summer 
a plain white dress. On one occasion she placed a 
band of blue ribbon, perhaps an inch and a half wide, 
around her waist for a belt. "I did not think" she 
says, "that it was anything indecorous, but when my 
father saw me appear with it on in the presence of 
company at our house, he commanded me to go and 
take it off." 

RULES ON DRESS. 

One rule of " Discipline on Dress" was as follows : 

" Question : Should we insist on the rule concern- 
ing dress ? 

" Answer: By all means. This is no time to give 
encouragement to superfluity of apparel. Therefore 
receive none into the church till they have left off 
superfluous ornaments. In order to this, i. Let every 
one who has charge of a circuit or station read Mr. 
Wesley's ' Thoughts on Dress,' at least once a year in 
every society. 2. In visiting classes be very mild but 
very strict. 3. Allow of no exempt case, better one 
suffer than many. 4. Give no tickets (love-feast 
tickets) to any that wear high heads, enormous bon- 
nets, ruffles or rings." 

The above rule was altered by the General Confer- 



METHODISM IN TROY. 29 

ence of 1856, so that the answer to the above question 
reads as follows : 

" Answer : By all means. This is no time to 
encourage superfluity of dress. Therefore let all 
our people be exhorted to conform to the spirit of the 
apostolic precept ' not to adorn themselves with gold 
and costly array.' — 1 Tim. 11. 9. 

No person was admitted to the love-feasts without 
presenting a ticket indicating the good standing of the 
bearer as a church member. When the services began 
the doors were locked and no other persons were 
admitted thereafter. 

Following again the line of the history of the church 
through the periods of the successive ministrations of 
its different pastors, we come to the year 18 10, when 
Troy was made a station by the New York Conference, 
and included in the Rhinebeck district. The Rev. 
William Phcebus was appointed to the new station. 
Conceiving that the several societies embraced by the 
station were too poor to afford him and his family an 
adequate support " he left the charge by the consent 
of the presiding elder." However the Troy society 
was not without the services of several circuit 
preachers that year. The Revs. William Swayze and 
Lewis Pease, on the Pownal circuit, were sent to Troy. 
As remarked by Phebe Curtis, " we had preaching as 
usual once in two weeks, but all the other wants of the 
society were supplied by the efficient, untiring, and 
expenseless labors of the Rev. Elijah Chichester. This 
seemed a provision of Providence, for the burden of 



3o METHODISM IN TROY. 

the building of the church was borne by the leading 
men of the society." 

The revival of February, 1 8 1 1 , which largely 
increased its membership, was conducted by the Rev. 
Lewis Pease. The revival began in a prayer-meeting 
held at the dwelling of Samuel Scoby. A feeling of 
seriousness had prevailed among those attending these 
weekly meetings. At that one tears began to flow and 
hearts soften. " There had not been a case known of 
a person losing strength in a Troy meeting, but at that 
one a young man fell to the floor," and before the 
meeting closed there was a number of persons 
converted. On the following Sunday evening, in the 
unfinished church, many seekers crowded to the 
extemporized altar, more than could conveniently 
kneel together on the board placed there. Before the 
congregation was dismissed many had found peace 
with God. The meetings which nightly followed were 
similarly blessed. Respecting the converts it was 
observed : " If we did not get many that were rich and 
learned, we got worthy ones." The brethren did not 
believe that ignorance nourishes devotion, but they 
did rejoice to see so large a number of unenlightened 
people brought to a saving knowledge of Christ. A 
young man, who had been known unfavorably for his 
exceeding profanity, when expressing his thoughts and 
feelings in class and prayer-meetings, seemed to use 
the most blasphemous language when it was his 
purpose to speak reverently. But he rapidly succeeded 
in improving his phraseology and when he went West 



METHODISM IN TROY. 31 

to live he became an exemplary class-leader. Another 
young man, who experienced a change of heart, after- 
ward joined the Presbyterian Church, and subsequently 
became a missionary to the Indians. 

" The administration of the rite of baptism by sprink- 
ling was a stumbling block to some of the young con- 
verts, who had been baptized that way in infancy. 
They wished to be immersed. Our minister refused 
to rebaptize them, and a few joined the Baptist Church. 
The first among the persons converted during the 
revival, who chose immersion, were Samuel Eddy, Joel 
Curtis, Julia Andres, and Dorcas Mercer." Usually 
immersions were performed in the Hudson River, near 
the ferry. 

The Rev. Smith Arnold on the Pownell circuit, 
preached statedly in Troy, in 1 8 1 1. Under his regular 
visitations and instructive teachings the society increas- 
ed its members and spiritual growth. His pious wife 
successfully conducted the women's prayer meetings. 

In 1812, Troy was again made a station by the New 
York Conference, and placed in the bounds of the 
Ashgrove district. The Rev. Peter P. Sandford re- 
ceived the appointment. The society through his 
vigilant care greatly prospered. 

WAR OF l8l 2. 

Remarking the bitter political partisanship of the 
people at the outbreak of the war of 181 2, Miss Curtis 
writes : "It was a matter of too much importance to 
feel indifferent. It required a good share of the influ- 
ence of religion to keep free from the excitement which 



32 METHODISM IN TROY. 

controlled the public mind. Our ministers and more 
devoted members, through the years of conflict, labored 
to promote harmony. Earnest prayers were offered 
to God to control the events of our country and to 
save the people from that turbid current of strife which 
bore on its agitated stream intemperance, profaneness, 
and death. Three or four of our members were draft- 
ed." On the evening of the day [Tuesday, February 
21, 1815], when the intelligence of peace reached Troy, 
was held one of the stated prayer-meetings of the 
society, at which grateful acknowledgement and praise 
were poured forth from full souls to the Great Author 
and Prince of Peace. The next day as related by the 
village newspaper, the bells were rung, and at 1 1 
o'clock a procession of citizens and military marched 
to the Presbyterian Church, where " the voice of 
Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God for the 
inestimable blessings of Peace was raised " by the 
Rev. Jonas Coe, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, by 
the Rev. Francis Wayland of the First Particular 
Baptist Church, and by the Rev. Laban Clark of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

In 181 3, the Rev. Laban Clark, who began his 
ministry in 1801, entered upon his pastorate of two 
years in the village. His ministrations, it is said " were 
greatly prized by those who loved experimental reli- 
gion." After leaving the society in a prosperous con- 
dition in 1 81 5, he served with marked success a 
number of other prominent churches. He took an 
active part in the organization of the Missionary Society, 



METHODISM IN TROY. 33 

in 1 81 9, and was one of the principal founders of the 
Wesley University, at Middletown, Conn., chartered 
in 1 83 1. He died at Middletown, Conn., on November 
2&, 1868, aged ninety years. 

CONVERSION OF NOAH LEVINGS. 

The circumstances of the conversion of that eminent 
man of God, the Rev. Noah Levings, D. D., who 
under the preaching of the Rev. Laban Clark gave his 
heart to God, are very striking. At the age of sixteen 
he was apprenticed by his parents to a blacksmith in 
the village. When he entered upon his term of service 
he formed the resolution of being faithful to the 
interests of his master and to regard them as his own. 
His master, it appears, paid little attention to the 
religious education of his apprentice. Unthinkingly, 
he permitted him to associate with ungodly men, with 
whom on Sundays he roamed in the fields and through 
the woods, near the city. " His parents, though not 
professedly pious, had trained their children to a strict 
observance of the Christian Sabbath," and their teach- 
ings led him to consider his ways and to determine to 
forsake the companionship of his evil-inclined associ- 
ates. Resolving to lead a better life, he began " a 
circuit of visitation to the different churches in the 
village." " He first visited the Presbyterian Church, 
then under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Jonas Coe, 
D. D., who," he says, " was a good man and an excel- 
lent pastor." He next attended the Baptist Church, 
where " good old Mr. Wayland was the minister." 
Though favorably impressed with the piety and ability 



34 METHODISM IN TROY. 

of both these servants of God, he could not feel at home 
in their congregations. His third visit was made to 
the Protestant Episcopal Church [then on the north- 
west corner of Congress and Third streets], but there 
he was wearied with ceremonies too numerous and 
complicated to be either interesting or edifying. He 
next attended the meeting of the Friends [in their 
house of worship on the southwest corner of Fourth 
and State streets], but there, instead of long prayers 
and tedious ceremonies, he heard nothing at all ; nor 
was he loth to leave when the hour was up, and the 
sign for closing given. 

" His last visit of inquiry was at the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He found a small house occupied 
by a simple, plain and solemn people. Their worship, 
though not imposing in its forms, was hearty and sincere. 
It not a little surprised him to witness, for the first 
time in his life, a congregation kneeling down in time 
of prayer. The conviction was wrought in his mind 
that this people were the people of God. Under the 
ministry of the Word, feelings were awakened which 
he had known nowhere else ; and under the powerful 
reasonings and cogent appeals of the Rev. Peter P. 
Sandford, the stationed minister, he was often made to 
feel that God was truly in that place. But it was more 
particularly under the preaching of the Rev. Laban 
Clark that he was led to realize fully his lost condition, 
and to feel the necessity of seeking salvation by faith 
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He joined the society as a 
probationer in 1813." 



METHODISM IN TROY. 35 

The incidents of his connection with the church are 
graphically related by the Rev. Laban Clark, who said : 
" One day an apprentice boy, in his blacksmith's garb, 
direct from his labor, called upon him and made appli 
cation to be received into the society. He appeared to 
be about sixteen years of age ; was small in stature, 
bashful in his address, and the circumstances of his 
introduction were peculiar and somewhat disadvan- 
tageous, yet there was something so unassuming and 
so winning in his manner, so sincere and intelligent in 
his whole appearance and conversation, that a favorable 
impression was made upon the mind of the preacher, 
and he admitted him as a probationer ; at the same 
time giving him encouragement and counsel. On the 
following Wednesday night, at their public prayer meet- 
ing, when the leading members had prayed, and it was 
nearly time to dismiss the congregation, at the close of 
one of the prayers a youthful voice, whose feminine 
tones were scarcely sufficient to fill the church, was 
heard some two-thirds down the aisle, leading in prayer. 
The prayer was feeling and appropriate, but short, so 
short as to be at the longest comprised within a minute. 
As the preacher passed down the aisle, his blacksmith 
boy stood at the end of a seat, waiting to grasp his 
hand with Christian affection. On the next Wednesday 
evening, the silvery tones of the same youthful voice 
were again heard, near the close of the meeting, 
leading in its devotions. At this time he prayed with 
more fervor, more compass of thought, and more self- 
possession, and yet his prayer was not more than a 



36 METHODISM IN TROY. 

minute and a half, At the close of the meeting, as the 
official brethren gathered around the preacher, one 
inquired who that boy was ; another said his forward- 
ness must be checked ; and a third that he must be 
stopped altogether. The preacher simply replied : 
' Now, brethren, let that boy alone — there is something 
in him more than you are aware of,' and from that time 
no one questioned the right of the blacksmith boy to 
take part in the public prayer- meetings." 

After uniting with the church, he continued to be an 
active but humble follower of Christ. The Rev. Tobias 
Spicer, speaking of his associations with him when the 
former became pastor of the church in Troy, in 1815, 
writes : " I considered him a very pious young man, 
and often invited him to accompany me to my week- 
evening appointments and set him to exhorting after 
me. He soon gave evidence to the brethren that God 
had called him to do something in his vineyard, and he 
obtained a license to preach, and not long after the 
term of his apprenticeship was expired he was admitted 
into the traveling connection. It is related that when 
he was examined as a candidate for the ministry he was 
asked if he had graduated from any institution of learn- 
ing. He facetiously replied, ' No, excepting it were 
from a blacksmith's bellows-pole.' " 

REV. TOBIAS SPICERS PASTORATE. 

The successor of the Rev. Laban Clark was the well- 
known light of Methodism, the Rev. Tobias Spicer, 
who in 1 8 10 had entered the ministry by becoming an 
itinerant on the Brandon circuit. He, with his family,. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 37 

arrived in Troy on May 25, 181 5. The Troy station 
embraced Troy, Lansingburgh, Waterford, Albia, 
Brunswick, and West Troy. " Here I was associated," 
he writes in his Autobiography, " with the Rev. Elijah 
Chichester, a local preacher, who for a number of years 
had been among our pioneers in the traveling connec- 
tion, but now located and engaged in mercantile 
business. I generally preached in Troy, morning and 
afternoon, and Brother Chichester in the evening, while 
I went to Lansingburgh, a distance of three miles. To 
this place I generally went on foot, and frequently 
returned the same evening. The other places I usually 
visited on week-day evenings once in two weeks. Our 
congregations in these places were but small, and our 
societies quite feeble. 

" During my first year in this station we had a 
gracious revival in Troy, in which during seven weeks 
more than a hundred members were added to our 
society. During the second year we had a good revival 
in Lansingburgh. When I came to this station there 
were in all the appointments one hundred and seven 
members, and when I left there were two hundred and 
fifty. 

REVIVALS. 

The following " Sketch of the Revival of Religion in 
the City of Troy," in 1816, written by him, was printed 
in the Methodist Magazine in 1818 : 

" At our fourth quarterly meeting, which was held 
February 25th, an unusual number of serious persons 
were admitted into love-feast. It was a precious time. 



38 METHODISM IN TROY. 

At the close of which we invited such as were deter- 
mined to seek the Lord to come forward to the altar 
that intercession might be made for them at the throne 
of grace. Upwards of thirty persons came forward and 
kneeled around the altar, for whom earnest prayer was 
made ; several of whom not long after found peace. 
From this time the work spread in different families. 
The different congregations began to be crowded and 
solemn. The prayer-meetings, especially, were much 
attended. Weeping and sighing were heard in all parts 
of the assembly. No private rooms could be obtained 
sufficiently large to contain the people. We found it 
necessary to resort to our meeting-house to hold our 
prayer-meetings ; and for two or three weeks almost 
every evening the lower seats of our church were filled, 
and there was scarcely a meeting but one or more were 
either awakened or converted to God. 

4< In the Baptist congregation the case was very 
similar. No rooms were large enough to hold the 
multitudes which attended their evening conferences. 
They also repaired to their church, where every 
evening in the week, for some time, was devoted to 
converse on things of God, joined with singing and 
supplication. In the former part of the revival they 
seemed to take the lead of the other denominations. 
At their first baptismal occasion, thirty-eight persons 
were baptized in the presence of such a concourse of 
people as perhaps no occasion had ever called out in 
this place before. 

" Great attention was also among the Presbyterians. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 39 

Their congregations were crowded ; their meetings 
were solemn ; their conferences or prayer - meetings 
were frequent and profitable. 

" This great and good work embraced people of 
various descriptions ; both rich and poor, masters and 
servants, aged and young, from children of eight or ten 
years old to the hoary head of eighty-four. 

14 I believe there were but a few instances of awak- 
ening under the preaching of the Word. The Lord 
seemed to show us He could work without us. Many 
were awakened in their minds at home, while about 
their work ; others, perhaps, while walking the streets. 
But the greatest number were awakened in the prayer 
or conference meetings. I might here detail many 
circumstances which took place, but I forbear. I 
would, however, observe that great union prevailed 
among the different denominations throughout the 
whole revival. There was but very little persecu- 
tion, owing partly to the genius of the people, but 
principally to the influence of the Divine Spirit, 
which seemed for awhile to awe the most abandoned 
sinners. 

4< The remarkable outpouring continued for the 
space of seven or eight weeks ; during which time I 
believe the number added to the different churches 
was as follows : 

44 To the Baptists, - - 58. 

44 To the Presbyterians, - 98. 

" To the Methodists, - - 107. 

44 And through the ensuing summer many more 



40 METHODISM IN TROY. 

were added to the different churches, some of whom 
were fruits of the revival. 

" Upwards of a year has elapsed since this good 
work commenced, and but few as yet have turned back, 
at least of those who have joined us. With the state 
of the other churches I am not particularly acquainted. 
When I consider how many of the subjects of this 
work were young people ; the many temptations to 
which they are exposed in a place like Troy, and how 
few have turned back ; I am compelled to cry, 4 It is the 
Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.' 

" I left Troy in June, 1 8 1 7, having labored there two 
years, in which time, in the two societies, Troy and 
Lansingburgh, both being included in the station, we 
received on probation two hundred and seventeen, of 
which only seventeen have been dropped. During 
which time three have died, four were expelled, one 
withdrew, and forty-one have removed to other soci- 
eties ; leaving a net increase of one hundred and fifty 
members." 

Of the pastoral work of the Rev. Tobias Spicer 
there is no need to say that it was remarkably suc- 
cessful. As pertinently observed by one of his con- 
temporaries, there is "no need to go to his published 
obituary to learn that he was exact, careful, conscientious, 
systematic, plain in speech and manner, and the very 
embodiment of prudence and economy." When dying 
at the residence of his son-in-law, Stephen Hemstreet, 
November 13, 1862, his last words were, " Light 
ahead ! " 



METHODISM IN TROY. 41 

In 181 7, the Rev. Samuel Luckey, who had entered 
the ministry in 1811 as an itinerant, received the 
appointment to Troy, and under his edifying instruc- 
tion and preaching about one hundred and fifty new 
members were added to the society. 

Writing to the editor of the Methodist Magazine, on 
January 19, 18 19, he thus speaks of the revival recently 
begun : " The work of reformation first became visible 
a week ago last evening after preaching in our church. 
About a dozen came to the altar to receive the benefit 
of our prayers that they might obtain mercy. Since 
then the altar has been crowded every night till a late 
hour. The number of recipients is not certainly known, 
but the fruit of last week, forty-two joined our church 
yesterday." 

Again writing on February 8, 181 9, he further 
relates the results of the revival : " Though four 
Sabbaths have passed away since it commenced in 
which one hundred and five have been received into 
our church in consequence of its still continuing, I am 
not prepared to give you that detailed account which I 
hope to be enabled to do hereafter. 

" It has thus far been confined principally to our 
church. I understand that two joined the Presbyte- 
rians yesterday ; but I am informed that the Baptists 
have not yet received any, though report says they 
expect to shortly. It is generally believed that our 
distinguishing doctrines, which make it inconsistent for 
men to procrastinate repentance under a pretext that 
the day of their visitation has not yet come, having 



42 METHODISM IN TROY. 

been long enforced from our pulpit, have had a blessed 
influence in the commencement and progress of this 
work." 

In 1818, Troy and Lansingburgh were included in 
one appointment, and the Rev. Samuel Luckey and 
the Rev. Earl Bancroft were appointed to the charge. 
After a long and successful ministry, the Rev. Samuel 
Luckey died October 11, 1869. 

FIRST SUNDAY-SCHOOL ORGANIZED. 

The organization of the first Methodist Sunday-school 
in Troy was undertaken in 181 7. In the summer of 
1 8 16 the first Sunday-school established in the city 
began its sessions in a room on the first floor of the 
old court-house. It was on the south side of the hall, 
and was used by a day-school. The desks and seats 
in it were appropriated to the use of the Sunday- 
school, which was known as the Union Sunday-school 
on account of the teachers being members of the Pres- 
byterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Methodist churches. 
Tradition gives the names of the following persons who 
were teachers; Catharine Brinckerhoff, Eliza Bloom, 
Jane Bloom, Mrs. Jacob L. Lane, Mr. Baker, Darbin 
Eldridge, Chauncey Peirce, Robert Wasson, Abby 
Noyes, Abby Peebles, and Miss Eliza Warren (Mrs. 
John Paine.) 

John Brinckerhoff, a prominent member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, was the first superintendent of the 
school. 

The control of the school by members of the Pres- 
byterian Church was not agreeable to the members of 



METHODISM IN TROY. 43 

the other denominations and caused considerable 
comment. The Rev. Samuel Luckey, pastor of the 
Methodist Church, and some of its members believing 
that it would be more advantageous to the society to 
organize a Sunday-school which should be directed and 
managed by the pastor and members of the church, 
undertook the work, and in 1817 formed the school 
which began its sessions in the red school-house, a 
one-story wooden building, erected about that time on 
the west side of Fifth Street, immediately east of the 
meeting-house on State Street. The school at first 
did not escape censure, for it was said that it caused 
"sectarian narrowness" and showed "opposition to 
union among Christians." The school was conducted 
in the red school-house until the erection of the brick 
church in 1827, when it occupied the basement of the 
new building. A branch Sunday-school, it is related, 
w r as started, about the year 1823, by Miss Eliza Andres, 
who, assisted by her sisters, conducted it in her day- 
school room, in a building on the northwest corner of 
Fourth and Elbow (Fulton) streets, rented by William 
W. Whipple, Sterling Armstrong, and Asahel Gilbert 
for a prayer-meeting room used by the members of the 
church living in the north part of the city. This school 
was discontinued when Miss Andres became the wife 
of Alexander Van Pelt, and removed to Lansingburgh 
where it is said she organized the first Sunday-school 
established in that village. 

It is further related that a part of the main school 
met for a time in the yellow school-house standing on 



44 METHODISM IN TROY. 

the plot of ground now known as St. Paul's Place, on 
the south side of State Street. 

When the school was first formed the exercises only 
included the reading of a chapter, or part of a chapter, 
of one of the books in the Old or New Testaments, 
the singing of an opening and closing hymn, and the 
offering of a prayer at the beginning and closing of the 
session of the school. There were no Sunday-school 
books in use at that time. Some years afterward printed 
tickets on which were texts of Scripture were given to 
the scholars for attendance and recitations ; a certain 
number of tickets of a special color entitling the 
possessor to a Bible given by the school for the tickets. 
William W. Whipple, who had become a member of 
the church in 1 8 1 3, was the first superintendent of the 
school. The temperance movement between the years 
1830-40, awakened considerable interest in the 
Sunday-school and almost all the scholars signed the 
pledge of total abstinence. The first Sunday-school 
library possessed by the school was obtained about 
the year 1831. Shortly afterward catechisms were 
introduced for the use of the school. In 1836, the 
lecture-room, which had been built as an extension to 
the church, was occupied by the school. In 1838, the 
school, with those of the Presbyterian and Bethel 
churches, enjoyed its first summer excursion ; a steam- 
boat taking them to Hudson. About the year 1845, 
the first Christmas festival was held by the school, at 
which gifts, cakes, and apples were distributed among 
the children. The semi-centennial anniversary of the 



METHODISM IN TROY. 4$ 

organization of the Sunday-school was celebrated on 
Sunday, November 10, 1867. At the different services 
that day a large number of people was in attendance.. 
The Rev. Samuel Luckey, D.D., then in his seventy- 
sixth year, delivered a sermon, an address, and 
related a number of interesting incidents connected 
with the organization of the school in 18 17. On the 
Monday evening following a reunion was held in 
Harmony Hall which was greatly enjoyed by all who 
had been and were members of the school. 

The visit of the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, in June, 
1817, to the prosperous society, was an event of much 
interest to its members. He was accompanied by his 
daughter, and as related in 1829, by his biographer, 
they were hospitably entertained at the residence of 
the Hon. George Tibbits. In 1861, this residence was 
purchased by the Children's Home Society, and is now 
known as the Day Home. 

" From Schenectady they returned to Troy, and put up 
at the house of the Hon. George Tibbits, whose hos- 
pitable mansion is delightfully situated on the side of a 
sloping hill ascending from the eastern part of the city,, 
denominated Mount Ida. On the Sabbath, Mr. Gar- 
rettson preached in the Methodist Church, in this city, 
morning, afternoon, and evening, to an attentive con- 
gregation ; and ' truly,' says he, 'it was a good day.' 
He remarks, that when he first visited this place 
about thirty years before, [in 1788], there were only a 
few scattering houses, and no Methodist society ; but 
that now he was rejoiced to find a flourishing little 



46 METHODISM IN TROY. 

city, in which there were four houses of worship, and 
not less than three hundred members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. What seemed to add to his relig- 
ious enjoyment was the catholic and friendly spirit 
manifested by the several religious denominations 
toward each other." 

In the summer of 1817, the gallery of the church 
was provided with seats. The fence around the 
building was ordered to be painted "all red or 
Spanish brown," except the front part . " which was 
to be white." 

In 1 8 19, the Rev. William Ross received the Troy 
appointment and faithfully served the congregation 
until 1 82 1. Dr. John Loudon, who had joined the 
society in 18 10, died February 12, 1820. He be- 
queathed to the church, for a parsonage, the house, 
afterward known as No. 141, and the lot on which it 
stood, on the west side of Third Street, between 
Ferry and Division streets. 

FIRST METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

At a meeting of the members of the church, on 
December i5, 1820, "for the purpose of forming a 
missionary society auxiliary to the parent society in 
New York, the Rev. Daniel Ostrander was chosen 
chairman and Isaac V, Bassett, secretary. A draft of 
a constitution was made, reported, and adopted. 

William W. Whipple, John Wright, Isaac V. Bassett, 
and William Gardner were made a committee to pre- 
sent the "constitution for subscription." The society 
having adjourned to meet on the evening of Jan- 



- managers. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 47 

uary 4, 1 821, at its next meeting elected the following 
officers : 

Rev. Daniel Ostrander, president. 

Rev. Wm. Ross, first vice-president. 

Stephen Andres, second vice-president. 

Harvey Betts, corresponding secretary. 

Zina P. Egleston, clerk. 

John Wright, treasurer. 

William W. Whipple, secretary. 

Asahel Gilbert, jr., 

William Gardner, 

Arthur Milliken, 

James Russell, 

Freeman Adams, 

Dennis Belding, 
This society is now represented by the Missionary 
Committee annually appointed by the Quarterly Con- 
ference of the church. 

The Board of Trustees in January, 1821, passed a 
resolution in which they ''entered their most solemn 
protest against the singing being led up in the gallery" 
of the church, and also resolved to make "the same 
known to the society in society meeting." 

In 1 82 1, the Rev. Benjamin Griffin was appointed 
to Troy. He is spoken of as " one of the most able 
preachers of his day, a strict disciplinarian, and a 
prominent member for many years of the New York 
Conference. During his two years' pastorate he is 
said to have "kept begging all the time" to obtain 
$400 to free the congregation of the debt on the church 



48 METHODISM IN TROY. 

property. Shortly before the death of John Wright, 
on September 24, 1823, being in Troy on a visit, he 
called to tell him with no little evident gladness that 
he had finally secured sufficient money to discharge 
the long standing obligation. 

In 1823, the Rev. Noah Bigelow, who began his 
ministry in 18 10, was appointed to Troy. During his 
one year's pastorate in the city, he earnestly labored 
for the salvation of sinners. Bishop Thompson said 
of him : "As a preacher I have yet to hear his equal. 
Thousands of souls will rise up in judgment and call 
him blessed and his name will ever be like a precious 
ointment in the churches." He died in Columbus, Ohio, 
July 1, 1835, at the age of forty-two years. Just 
before his death he exclaimed, " My only hope is in 
the atonement ! On that alone I rely. Through that 
I expect to be saved." When too weak to speak he 
raised his hand and looked upward in token that all 
was well. 

In 1824, the Rev. James M. Smith, who had so 
early in the century preached to the little company of 
Methodists in Troy, came to the prosperous church 
and served the congregation for two years. 

His successor, in 1826, was the Rev. Stephen Mar- 
tindale, who entered the itinerant ministry in 1808* 
During the first summer of his zealous pastorship, a 
small meeting-house was erected at Albia, in the fifth 
ward of the city, where there was a large cotton 
factory. At that time, it must be remembered, that 
the large number of members of the church did not 



METHODISM IN TROY. 49 

wholly live within the city limits. Not a few resided 
at the Iron Works, some in the town of Brunswick, 
and others in West Troy. As Albia was somewhat 
distant from the church, and as the members there 
were frequently detained from attending services by 
inclement weather and the bad condition of the roads, 
particularly in winter, it was resolved by the trustees 
in August 1 5, 1826, to erect there a meeting-house 
" for the use of the members." 

In an " extract of a letter from the Rev. S. Martin- 
dale to the publishers of the Christian Advocate and 
Journal" dated Troy, N. Y., December 27, 1826, the 
following mention is made of a revival that was in 
progress at that time : " It is true there is much religious 
excitement in this city ; our meeting-house is too small 
to contain the ordinary congregation ; and we are 
called upon daily to enlarge our house or build a new 
one, that willing hearers may have the word of life. 
We have built a new meeting-house in this city, in the 
neighborhood of the factory, which is well filled with 
attentive hearers ; but this does not remedy the incon- 
venience in the old house at all ; it is still crowded 
above measure. We have this month added seven- 
teen to the society, and many more are making up 
their minds to cast in their lot among the Methodists." 

THE BRICK CHURCH BUILT. 

The Troy society desiring to have a larger house of 
worship with adequate sittings for its many members, 
began in 1827 to take steps to erect one. On January 
8, that year, the committee to whom was assigned " the 

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50 METHODISM IN TROY. 

duty of deciding" whether or not "a new meeting- 
house " should be built, and of providing ways and 
means for its erection should the work be under- 
taken, reported favorably, and suggested " that the 
slips on the audience floor" should " be rented for five 
years annually," and if at the expiration of the five 
years the majority of the members of the church should 
be opposed to the future renting of the slips, and should 
raise the amount which the trustees needed to extin- 
guish the debt for its erection, " the house should be 
free, but if the majority of the members favored the 
further renting of the slips, the same should be 
rented." 

In the spring of 1827, the erection of a brick build- 
ing was begun on a part of the site of the old meeting- 
house. The new structure, fronting with a gable im- 
mediately on State Street, a little east of the alley, was 
fifty-five feet wide and sixty-six long. On December 
1, that year, the building was dedicated. The Rev. 
Bishop Hedding preached the dedicatory sermon, and 
was assisted in the services by the Rev. Nathan Bangs, 
and other prominent Methodist ministers. At that 
time four hundred and thirty-seven persons constituted 
the membership of the church. The Board of Trustees 
were William W. Whipple, Charles Lemon, Harvey 
Betts, James Russell, and Levi Rogers, the father of 
Mrs. Myron King. Among the number of persons 
who joined the society that year were the writer's 
father and mother, Isaac and Nancy Hillman. 

When it was determined that the new church should 



52 METHODISM IN TROY. 

be erected on the plot occupied by the old meeting- 
house, a committee was appointed to sell the latter at 
public auction. Accordingly it was sold on February 
28, 1827, to Thomas Read and Sterling Armstrong for 
$500 ; possession of it being given on November 1 , 
that year. The purchasers moved the structure to the 
corner of State and Fifth streets, where it was used for 
the sittings of the different courts, while the present 
court-house on Second Street was building. It was 
also rented and used for a grocery store until the 
erection of the stone church was undertaken in 1867. 

MEMORABLE INCIDENTS. 

The New York Conference held within the plain 
walls of the old meeting-house four of its annual meet- 
ings ; the first on May 6, 18 19, the second, May 30, 
1 82 1, the third May 3, 1825, and the fourth, May 9, 
1827. 

It was in the old white meeting-house that the 
eloquent Rev. John Summerneld was admitted into the 
conference in 182 1, and where afterward " that youth- 
ful minister of the Lord Jesus bore his rapt hearers 
heavenward on the wings of his touching and lofty 
evangelical eloquence, till like those who had gazed on 
the Master's transfigured glory, they said ' Lord, it is 
good for us to be here.' ' In it also Bishop Enoch 
George " made its walls echo and ring with the burn- 
ing words of his powerful eloquence, that rushed on 
like a mighty cataract, with an impetuosity that bore 
down every opposition which had braced itself against 
the truth, and made his hearers passively resign them- 



METHODISM IN TROY. 53 

selves to an influence which was too strong for them." 
Space does not permit the mention of the names of 
the many gifted servants of Christ whose burning 
words fell like sacred fire upon the hearts of their 
hearers in the old sanctuary and sanctified them for the 
great day of glory hereafter. Of the prominent mem- 
bers of the society who so regularly worshipped for 
many years beneath its roof, and afterwards died with 
that peace which passeth all understanding, may be 
classed John Wright, Charles Lemon, William 
McBurney, Abner Foster, John Loudon, William W. 
Whipple, Roger King, Daniel Marvin, sr., Dr. A. J. 
Skilton, Peter Bontecou, Mrs. James Young, Thomas 
L. Ostrom, Sterling Armstrong, Valentine Marvin, 
Thomas Archibald, Stephen Monroe, Eli Townsend, 
Lawrence Van Valkenburgh, Isaac Hillman, John G. 
Buswell, William Tucker, 'Gardner Landon, Lyman 
Bennett, Gilbert D. Golden, Myron King, Waters W. 
Whipple, and Harvey Betts. These all died in the 
triumph of faith. 

Of the well-known members who joined the society 
after the erection of the brick church, and who fought 
the good fight and finished their earthly course, may 
be mentioned Alvin Williams, Daniel Witherspoon, 
William H. Manning, George Bristol, Charles J. Saxe, 
Henry Davis, William Saunders, David P. Barnnger, 
Elizabeth Hillman, and John Archibald. 

In a letter written to the Methodist Magazine, by 
the Rev. S. Martindale, dated Troy, N. Y., March 5, 
1828, he remarks : " Our prospects in this city are 



54 METHODISM IN TROY. 

good, the brethren are much united, the congregations 
large and increasing, and God is pouring out his Spirit 
upon us gloriously. Upwards of sixty have found 
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ during 
the last ten days, and eighty-three have been added 
to the church in this place since conference ; but the 
principal part have joined the last month. In the 
neighborhood of our church at the factory all business 
was laid aside for a number of days, the factories were 
stopped, and meetings held night and day." 

In 1828, the Troy district of the New York Confer- 
ence was formed, and that year the conference sent 
the Rev. Samuel Merwin to Troy, who had entered 
the ministry in 1800. He was a well-known preacher 
and had been connected as a pastor with some of the 
most prosperous Methodist societies north of Mary- 
land. He is described as " dignified in person, pow- 
erful in eloquence, generous in spirit, and mighty in 
labor." In 1829, the Rev. John Tackaberry was 
appointed to assist him, and preach in the new meeting- 
house at Albia. 

The appointment for Troy, in 1830, brought the Rev* 
John B. Stratton, and his assistant, the Rev. Abiathar 
M. Osbon, to Troy. The latter, the next year, was 
appointed to Albia, which then became a separate 
society. In the winter of 1830-31, the society enjoyed 
a gracious revival. The zealous pastor, the Rev. John 
B. Stratton, was ably assisted by the Rev. John New- 
land Mafhtt. It is related that " night after night, for 
weeks, the silver-tongued Maffitt proclaimed the truth 



METHODISM IN TROY. 55 

to audiences limited only by the capacity of the church, 
which were swayed like forest branches in the breeze 
before .the magic, spell-like power of his eloquence. 
Multitudes were not only attracted to the preacher, but 
to God." 

An active layman thus wrote concerning this work 
of grace, on January 3, 1 831, to a friend, in New York 
City: " I have the gratification to inform you that a 
more general excitement on religious subjects prevails 
at the present time, in Troy, than was ever witnessed 
before. Every church and congregation is in motion. 
Our meeting-houses are filled to overflowing. Prayer- 
meetings are held by the members of almost every 
church at six o'clock in the morning, as well as every 
evening in the week. All ranks, high, low, old, and 
young, rich and poor, are anxiously inquiring what 
they shall do to be saved, and some have given pleasing 
evidence of a union wdth Christ." 

On January i5, that year, the Rev. J. B. Stratton 
wrote to the editors of the Christian Advocate and 
Journal : " The work of the Lord is going on glori- 
ously in this city, in our churches and those of other 
denominations, as well as in Albany and Lansingburgh." 

It was in this revival that Rev. Moses L. Scudder, 
D. D., was converted. He was a clerk in the dry 
goods store of V. and D. Marvin. He became one of 
the leading ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
and is now a member of the New York East Con- 
ference. 

From the organization of the society not a few 



56 METHODISM IN TROY. 

colored people were members of the church. A class 
exclusively formed of persons of African descent was 
led, in 1830-31, by John Dungy, an intelligent and 
pious colored man. 

The Rev. Ebenezer Brown, a located Methodist 
preacher, was the originator of Troy's greatest industry, 
the manufacture of collars and cuffs. Having retired 
from the ministry on account of ill-health about the 
year 1829, he opened a small dry-goods store at No. 
285 River Street, not far south of Fulton Market. In 
connection with that business he began selling men's 
string collars, made by women employed by him. 
Subsequently the manufacture of collars and shirt- 
bosoms, and later that of cuffs and shirts, was engaged 
in by other men in the city, the most of whom were 
for many years members of the different Methodist 
societies in the city. 

Some of the members of the Troy society living in 
West Troy had there, in 1828, joined a class led 
by William Tucker. In 1830, the society having in- 
creased to 70 or 80 members was divided into three 
classes, led respectively by William Tucker, Ammon 
Hammond, M. D., and William B. Hall. In the winter 
of 1 83 1, a subscription was circulated to obtain the 
means to build a house of worship and about $800 
were subscribed. A small wooden building, thirty-five 
by forty-five feet, was built and finished in September, 
that year. The society desiring preaching statedly, the 
Rev. Stephen Remington was sent to West Troy, in 
1 83 1 ; two-thirds of whose salary was paid by the Troy 



METHODISM IN TROY. 57 

society. In 1832, West Troy become a separate 
appointment. 

In 1832, the Rev. Buel Goodsell was appointed to 
Troy. He was a vigorous preacher, and an unrivaled 
exhorter. In December, that year, the five years 
expired during which the pews in the church had been 
rented. The Board of Trustees then resolved that the 
seats in the future should be free according to the 
Discipline of the church, and "that the doors of the 
slips" should "be taken off." 

FIRST MEETING OF THE TROY CONFERENCE. 

The first annual meeting of the Troy Conference 
was held in the city on August 28, 1833. The confer- 
ence embraced four districts : Troy, Saratoga, Middle- 
bury, and Plattsburgh, representing a society member- 
ship of 18,442 white persons and 5o colored. 

In 1834, the Rev. Noah Levings was appointed to 
Troy, and was warmly welcomed by the society from 
which he had gone forth sixteen years previously to 
preach the truths of the Gospel. It was in the second 
year of his appointment that the society erected a 
brick church on the northeast corner of North Second 
and Jacob streets. Besides the purpose of taking 
advantage of the growth of the city northward of 
Grand Division Street, the expediency of harmonizing 
whatever discord the renting of the pews had caused, 
may also be deduced from the first steps taken in 1831 
to advance the project. At a meeting held in the 
church on May 23, that year, a committee was ap- 
pointed " to provide a place for preaching somewhere 



58 METHODISM IN TROY. 

in the bounds of the fourth ward." On August 13, 
following, the trustees of the church passed a resolu- 
tion "that a subscription should be circulated through 
the city and elsewhere for the purpose of building a 
Methodist Episcopal Church in the fourth ward" of the 
city, "with free seats." On May 13, 1834, the Board 
of Trustees resolved "to proceed to build a church on 
the corner of North Second and Jacob streets, and 
rent the slips and gallery of the brick church in the 
third ward for ten years," as soon as they obtained 
on their subscription books " the sum of four thousand 
dollars to be applied to building the new church." In 
June that year the erection of the new church, a brick 
structure, was begun. The building was dedicated on 
August 30, 1835, by Bishop Hedding. In January, 
1836, the congregation worshipping in it became a 
separate society. The distinction of the two churches, 
the one as State Street Church, and the other as North 
Second Street Church, began to be used in 1835, when 
the Rev. Noah Levings was appointed to the first and 
the Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson to the second. 

In 1836, the Rev. Truman Seymour was appointed 
to State Street Church. The society which had five 
hundred and fifty-five members before the organization 
of the North Second Street Church was now reduced 
to two hundred and ninety members. Many of the 
most active workers had gone into the new field of 
labor and left in the old one but a few experienced 
leaders. The zealous pastor, however, did not fold his 
hands and let the harvest go ungathered. It is related 



METHODISM IN TROY. 59 

that after attempting in 1837 to hold a series of revival 
meetings without seeing the results desired by him, he 
called a meeting of the officers of the society and said 
to them : " If you will stand by me in these meetings 
and by your presence and prayers sustain me, we will 
go on with them and I will lay my bones here but that 
a victory shall come, but if you will not, I shall close 
the meetings." The officers of the church at once urged 
him to renew his efforts, promising him all the encour- 
agement and assistance he might demand from them. 
He again preached with great fervor of soul. After 
the sermon the officers collected inside the altar railing 
and he invited the unconverted persons in the church 
to come forward for prayer. In no little time the altar 
was thronged about with a crowd of seekers, and a 
glorious revival was inaugurated which continued for 
three months. It is also related that during the revival 
the most intense sympathy pervaded the meetings and 
that one night Jared Alger fell his whole length on the 
floor and praised God aloud even to the extent of his 
voice, causing a number of persons to leave the house. 
Peter Bontecou arose and requested the people to 
remain. Other members of the church were willing 
to have those go who wished, saying that when one 
went away ten would return to see what was the 
matter. 

It was during the pastorate of this noble-spirited 
servant of God that the writer became a member of 
State Street Church, having been admitted on proba- 
tion on September 5, 1836, and baptized by immersion 



60 METHODISM IN TROY. 

and received into full connection on September 24, 
1837. Many prophesied that the boy would not 
prove faithful. However, the time of his probation 
was continued for thirteen months, although the regular 
time was six months. He was then received into full 
connection and during the space of fifty-one years his 
good standing in the church has never been questioned. 

The use of musical instruments in the church, it 
should be known, was not approved by its early mem- 
bers and no little opposition was shown to the gradual 
innovations that were made to support the congrega- 
tional and choir singing with such instruments as the 
bass viol and organ. At one time, the singers in 
the church attempted to introduce the use of a bass 
viol and obtained a player to bring one to the church 
for a rehearsal. Seeing the objectionable instrument 
in the gallery, while on his way to class-meeting, Isaac 
Hillman took his pocket-knife and cut the strings of 
the viol, thereby defeating the purpose of the ambi- 
tious choristers. Although he had used so summary a 
method to sustain the authority of the society, he 
nevertheless indemnified the viol-player for the loss of 
the strings of his instrument. 

In 1838, the Rev. Stephen Remington was appointed 
to the State Street Church, and, after serving the 
society faithfully for two years, was succeeded, in 1840, 
by the Rev. Charles P. Clark, who also remained two 
years. 

While the former was pastor of the church a number 
of Methodists, living at the Iron Works, formed a 



METHODISM IN TROY. 61 

small society, and designated themselves members of 
the Fourth Methodist Church in Troy. On September 
24, 1838, they met at their usual place of worship and 
elected five of their members Trustees of " Leving's 
Chapel in the City of Troy," naming it after the Rev. 
Noah Levings, D. D. 

In 1842, the Rev. Noah Levings was again sent to 
State Street Church and he ministered unto its people 
one year and was then transferred to the New York 
Conference. While he was officiating as the pastor of 
the State Street Churcii, the great land-slide on the 
west side of Mount Ida happened on Friday afternoon, 
February 17, 1843. Fifteen persons lost their lives and 
as many more were injured by the sudden avalanche 
of heavy clay. On the following Sunday evening 
he preached from the text : " Of these eighteen, upon 
whom the tower of Siloam fell, and slew them, think 
ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt 
in Jerusalem ? " 

His successor in 1843 was the Rev. James Covell, jr., 
whose health, shortly after his appointment, began to 
decline, and being too weak in body to accomplish 
successfully the duties incumbent upon him, the society 
secured the Rev. John W. Lindsey to assist him. 

JOHN NEWLAND MAFFITT. 

During the pastorate of the Rev. James Covell, jr., 
the Rev. John Newland Mafhtt again preached a series 
of revival sermons in the church, and as at his former 
visit, attracted overflowing congregations by his re- 
markable discourses. 



62 METHODISM IN TROY. 

On February 19, 1845, Reuben Peckham wrote to 
the editors of the Christian Advocate, o-ivingf a brief 
account of the beginning of the wonderful revival : " We 
are enjoying a most precious revival of religion in the 
State Street Church, under the ministry of the Rev. J. 
N. Maffitt ; for the past few weeks the Lord has won- 
derfully blessed His Word in reviving the membership 
and in the awakening and conversion of sinners. * * * 
About i5o have already been converted and no have 
united with the church. 

On April 23, that year, the Rev. John W. Lindsey 
wrote to the editors ; " W^e continued our meetings 
almost without interruption for three months. During 
that time about 350 professed to be converted, and 
still there are some inquiring, ' What must we do to 
be saved ? ' We have received on probation upward 
of 270. 

" This revival has been deep and powerful, present- 
ing many interesting features during its progress. We 
have seen the husband leading the wife, and the wife 
the husband, to the altar; the father the son ; and, in 
another instance, a little boy, who had been converted, 
pleading with his father till he came to the altar, where 
he soon found pardon. We have had instances where 
the strongest earthly barriers were thrown around the 
sinner to keep him away from God, yet grace has 
overcome ; the world was placed on the altar, and the 
soul happily converted to God. 

" One of the number of the young converts soon 
closed her christian career. Her race was short, but 



METHODISM IN TROY. 63 

its termination glorious. She was on board the ill-fated 
Swallow, the night of the sad disaster that called so 
many souls into eternity. She gave in testimony for 
God, clear and unwavering, the day before her death. 
Her body was found and brought back to this place. 
The funeral services were held in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and the occasion was solemnly and 
appropriately improved by Bro. Mafntt." 

Miss Elizabeth Spencer, the young convert men- 
tioned, had united with the church on March 29, 1845, 
and took passage on the evening of April 7, that year, 
on the steamboat Swallow, plying between Troy and 
New York. That night the Swallow struck a ledge 
of rocks, near the village of Athens, and the young 
lady, with many other passengers, was drowned by the 
sinking of the boat. Although the Rev. John New- 
land Maffitt had then left Troy, he returned and 
preached her funeral sermon with marked effect upon 
the hearts and minds of those who heard it. 

Among the most prominent persons who then joined 
the church, were George Bristol, O. W. Edson, James 
A. Skilton, D. P. Barringer, Daniel Marvin, jr., Amos 
H. Starks, Dr. Wesley Newcomb, Mary J. Byers, 
Roxy Witherell, Martha Edson, Julia C. Landon, 
Nancy Wait, Margaret Faulkner, Eleanor A. Young, 
Welthy Ogden, and Sarah L. Fisk. 

During the progress of this revival at the State 
Street Church, the Baptist society was also greatly 
augmented by the evangelistic preaching of Elder 
Knapp. The attention of the citizens was never before 



64 METHODISM IN TROY. 

so solemnly directed to the consideration of their 
spiritual welfare as at this time. 

While the gracious revival was in progress, the 
Rev. James Covel was gradually becoming physically 
weaker and the day of his death was approaching. 
When on May 15, 1845, the day on which his soul 
departed from its fleshly tenement, his physician, Dr. 
A. J. Skilton, said to him, " You are very near your 
end," he replied, "I hope so." Turning to his wife, 
seated by him, he remarked, " You are seeing me for 
the last time ; I long to be gone." Not long afterward 
he murmured, " Tell Brother Mattison that I die 
happy," and then he quietly passed from earth to 
heaven. His funeral, on May 17, was largely attended; 
Bishop Hedding preaching a solemn but eloquent 
sermon on the text, "I am now ready to be offered, 
and the time of my departure is at hand." One of the 
last official acts of the saintly pastor was his appoint- 
ment of Lyman R. Avery and the writer as class- 
leaders. 

The Rev. Elijah Chichester often, when preaching, 
made use of very striking illustrations to give point to 
his strong declarations. About the year 1845, when 
he was far advanced in years, he preached in the old 
brick church in State Street on the observance of the 
Sabbath. The desecration of the day he said was not 
unfrequently a sin of some of the merchants of the city 
who were prominent members of the different churches. 
From Monday until Saturday they would buy goods 
in the Gity of New York, and then hasten home and 



METHODISM IN TROY. 65 

be found the next day seated in their church pews 
listening attentively to the sermon of their pastors. 
Before returning from New York they had made the 
merchants, from whom they had purchased their stock 
of goods, promise that they would send them by the 
Sunday boat to Troy. " Now, while I am uttering 
these words a person might look out on the river at 
Poughkeepsie and see the passing steamer laden with 
those goods, on which vessel the officers and crew are 
breaking the Sabbath to accomplish the wishes of the 
merchants who are now sitting in the churches hearing 
the gospel preached and the commandments recited." 

VALENTINE MARVIN. 

One of the most prominent members of the early 
society in State Street was Valentine Marvin, a Troy 
dry-goods merchant. He was a very strict and consci- 
entious man in all his dealings, and in contributing 
money for religious purposes he was extremely careful 
that no loss should be sustained by the church in the 
use of the paper money given it by him. In his day 
some of the paper money of Western New York had 
only a discount value in Troy, and those who received 
it did not always obtain its full value when they 
wanted to use it. He was unwilling, therefore, to 
contribute any such money to the church as had a 
discount value and always gave coin or Troy bank 
notes, remarking that the Lord should have no sac- 
rifice from him which was not perfect and without 
blemish. His house was always open to the traveling 
preachers of the church. The Rev. John Newland 



66 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Maffitt made his home at the Marvin mansion for three 
months at a time and no compensation was ever 
received for so prolonged a stay. 

In 1845, the Rev. Luman A. Sanford was sent to 
the State Street Church, who had the Rev. A. W. 
Garvin for an assistant. Their labors were likewise 
blessed and a number of persons increased the mem- 
bership of the church. 

In 1847, the Rev. Allen Steele,, who is said to have 
been one of the most brilliant and intellectual men 
that ever occupied any pulpit, took charge of the 
spiritual affairs of the society. During his pastorate 
the Congress Street Methodist Episcopal Church at 
the intersection of Congress and Ferry streets, was 
dedicated by him. 

It was also during his pastorate of the State Street 
society that the Third Street Church, on the northeast 
corner of Third and Monroe streets, was built. The 
small society which had been organized, in 1843, began 
its erection in 1847. On Christmas day, that year, the 
building was dedicated with appropriate services. 

In 1849, the Rev. Zephaniah N. Lewis was appointed 
to State Street Church. He was, it is said, " a 
weeping prophet," and seldom preached without 
betraying his emotions in a flow of tears. This faithful 
pastor of the church was succeeded, in 1 851, by the 
Rev. Stephen D. Brown, one of the most popular as 
well as active preachers belonging to the Troy Confer- 
ence. During his pastorate a number of Methodists 
began holding meetings of prayer and exhortation 



METHODISM IN TROY. 67 

in the school-house in the tenth ward of the city, and 
they organized themselves on May i5, 1852, as a 
society known as " the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
North Troy." This name they changed on May 15, 
1854, to that of " the North Troy Methodist Episcopal 
Church." 

In 1853, the Conference sent to the State Street 
society the Rev. Lester Janes, who was a faithful 
pastor, and was followed, in 1854, by the Rev. Halsey 
W. Ransom, who was a man of much stability of 
purpose and an acceptable preacher. In 1856 and 1857, 
the Rev. Stephen Parks had charge of the church and 
did excellent service, and was much loved by the 
people. His failing health compelled him, at the close 
of his pastorate in Troy, to relinquish his work in the 
ministry, and, in 1858, he located and went into busi- 
ness. He amassed a fortune and retired. He now 
resides in Lansingburgh. 

Space will not permit me to particularize the gifts, the 
work, and the success of each of the subsequently 
appointed pastors of the State Street Church : the 
mother church of the eight other flourishing Methodist 
societies in the city. I can only mention the names of 
these faithful preachers and the periods of their 
respective ministrations. 

In 1858, the Rev. Joseph K. Cheeseman came to the 
church, serving it two years ;,in i860, the Rev. Ira G. 
Bidwell, whose ministrations also covered a period of 
two years ; then in 1862, the Rev. Charles W. Cushing, 
and in 1864, the Rev. Stephen D. Brown returned and 



68 METHODISM IN TROY. 

was as popular as before, and, in 1865, the Rev. Erastus 
Wentworth, D. D. 

In the fall of 1866, the building of the present stone 
church was projected and subscriptions were circulated 
to obtain the means to defray the expenses of the 
undertaking. In the spring of 1867, the property east 
of the brick church plot, extending to Fifth Street, was 
purchased. In June, that year, the trustees resolved to 
contract for the excavation for the foundations of the 
building. Thus far the work had been advanced when 
the Rev. George W. Brown, in 1868, was appointed 
pastor of the society. The corner-stone was laid on 
Thursday afternoon, June 2 5, that year, by the Rev. 
Truman Seymour ; addresses being made by the Rev. 
Stephen D. Brown, of New York City, and the Rev. 
Erastus Wentworth, D. D., of Pittsfield, Mass. The 
edifice was erected according to the plans of Woollett 
& Ogden, architects. 

LAST SERMON IN THE BRICK CHURCH. 

On February 13, 187 1 , the Board of Trustees 
resolved to sell the old brick church to Mr. Gardiner 
for #1,200. On Sunday evening, February 26, that 
year, the pastor, the Rev. George W. Brown, delivered 
" a memorial discourse in it, which was the last sermon 
preached in the building." On that memorable occa- 
sion, he said : " Since the building of this house of 
worship, many of the prominent men of Methodism 
have occupied its pulpit. Bishop Hedding, besides 
preaching the dedicatory sermon, often proclaimed here 
the word of life. Dr. Olin, too, on several occasions, 




STATE STREET M. E. CHURCH, BUILT, 187I; AND CHAPEL, BUILT, 1882. 
(With projected steeple.) 



7° METHODISM IN TROY. 

preached here, and, when in the full strength of his col- 
lossal powers, has, to use the language of one who heard 
him often, ' gone through this pulpit with the tread of an 
elephant.' Here Bishop Waugh preached the funeral 
sermon on the death of Bishop Emory. Here Dr* 
Dempster has held forth the word of life. Dr. J. P. 
Durbin, also, in his masterly manner, has here pre- 
sented the truth as it is in Jesus. But what shall I 
more say, for the time would fail me to tell of all the 
heroes of olden days, or more recent years, who have 
here done battle for God — men who were tried and 
true — and whose glittering steel has smitten error and 
defended truth while leading on the militant hosts of 
God's elect. 

" This church has a history toward which none of 
her children need blush to point. We are thankful for 
the influence this * Mother of Methodism ' in this 
section has had, and for the number of her daughter 
churches which ' rise up and call her blessed.' We 
are not forgetful of the princely men of our Israel, who 
have here preached the word in the demonstration of 
the Spirit and with power. 

" Thus it has been with this church. The cloud has 
rested here for more than half a century. The 
Shekinah glory has beamed from this altar and filled 
the house with its radiance. To-night that cloud lifts — 
and this is God's temple no longer." 

John G. Buswell, related at this last meeting held in 
the old brick church that, when a stranger in the city, 
he was making inquiries of a number of persons 



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respecting the location of the Methodist Church, that 
Myron King, then a boy, overheard one of his interro- 
gations and told him that he would show him the 
meeting-house, which he did to the delight of Mr. 
Buswell, who then began his personal relations with 
the members of the State Street society, which he 
maintained for many years thereafter. 

At the last meeting in the old bridk meeting-house, 
Gardner Landon was so deeply affected by the thought 
that he would not again enter it as a church that he 
could hardly express his feelings on that memorable 
occasion. " Here," he said, " I was born a Christian 
at this holy altar ; here I have worshipped from year 
to year, and now I cannot but feel sorry that I shall no 
longer be permitted to worship at it. I will imprint 
one kiss upon it in remembrance of the past." Bowing 
reverently over the altar railing, he kissed it with no 
little fervor of affection. 

BUILDING OF THE STONE CHURCH. 

The new church, built of blue lime-stone, was dedi- 
cated by Bishop Matthew Simpson, on Thursday 
morning, March 30, 1871. The attractive edifice has a 
frontage of seventy-five feet on State Street, and a 
depth of one hundred feet, on Fifth Street. The 
auditorium, fifty-nine by seventy feet, has 650 sittings 
and the gallery 250. The tower, nineteen feet square, 
rises to a height of eighty-five feet ; and when com- 
pleted, with the steeple, the height from the sidewalk 
to the finial on the spire, will be one hundred and 
seventy-five feet. The estimated cost of the church, 



72 METHODISM IN TROY. 

when completed, will be #125,000. (See subscription 
in appendix.) 

It was during the pastorate of the Rev. George W. 
Brown that the last general revival took place in the 
old brick church. He secured, in 1869, the services of 
the Troy Praying Band to assist him in conducting it. 
The church, as in the great revivals led by the Rev. 
John Newland Maffitt, often overflowed with the people 
attracted to the blessed meetings. Two members of 
the present official board of the society were converted 
at that revival. It was a thorough work of grace. 
Among the persons converted was a young man who 
was then a college student, whom, it was thought, 
would enter the Methodist ministry, but after gradua- 
ting at a Presbyterian college with high honors, he 
began the study of law. Inasmuch as there is need 
for Christian lawyers, as well as clergymen, God's will 
is no less accomplished by the event. 

Since the year of the dedication of the last church, 
erected by the congregation, seven other pastors have 
had charge of the society. The Rev. William H. 
Hughes, from 1872 to 1874; the Rev. Henry D.Kimball, 
from 1 874 to 1877. A very glorious revival took place 
during the pastorate of the Rev. H. D. Kimball, in 
1876. He was assisted by Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, an 
earnest and active revivalist. She was entertained at 
the house of the writer while engaged in the blessed 
work in the State Street Church. At the close of the 
last services, she, the writer, and a number of other 
interested persons, prolonged their stay at the church 



METHODISM IN TROY. 73 

by singing together such attractive revival hymns as 
" Hallelujah, 'tis done." When the writer, his guest, 
and his family returned home, they found that it 
had been broken into by burglars and robbed of 
money and valuables. The writer took the most com- 
placent view of the loss as was possible, and proposed 
that the hymn " Hallelujah, 'tis done " should be sung, 
but his children were unwilling to take part in the 
singing of it. Finally," Have you in the Lord believed ? " 
and " Still there's more to follow," were sung with con- 
siderable feeling. Singular as it may appear, on the 
night of the lecture delivered by Mrs. Van Cott, shortly 
afterward in Troy, the residence of the Rev. H. D. 
Kimball was entered by burglars and a number of 
articles of value stolen. The incident was looked upon 
as a literal fulfillment of the words, " More to follow," 
The revival of 1876 was not only a glorious success, 
but it gave to several of the Presbyterian churches a 
number of members. 

The next pastor of the church was the Rev. George 
J. Brown, who served the society as a pastor from 1877 
to 1880. He was a very scholarly man and highly 
blessed spiritually. In the last year of his pastorate in 
State Street he suffered from mental derangement and 
was taken to the asylum at Utica, at which institution 
he died, December 1, 1880, aged 41. His early 
decease was sincerely mourned by the congregation. 

The Rev. William J. Stevenson, D. D., was his suc- 
cessor, who was transferred to the Troy Conference 
from Wilmington, Del., in 1880, and served the congre- 



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gation with high commendation for two years. His 
popularity as a preacher and a pastor brought him a 
pressing call from Harrisburg, Pa., to which city he 
went from Troy. 

He was followed, in 1882, by the Rev. Ensign Mc- 
Chesney, Ph.D., whose excellent sermons and genial 
disposition obtained for him the high appreciation of 
the conorea-ation anc [ a i los t of admiring friends, who 
much regretted his leaving the society, in 1884, when 
he was transferred to the New York Conference. 
During his pastorate the erection of the present stone 
chapel was begun. The laying of the corner-stone 
took place on Tuesday afternoon, May 30, 1882. 
Addresses were delivered by the pastor and by the 
Rev. William J. Stevenson, D. D.; the latter laying the 
corner-stone. The dedicatory services, on Thursday 
afternoon, March 29, 1883, were opened by prayer by 
the Rev. Fred. Widmer. An address was delivered by 
the Rev. Henry A. Starks, which was followed by the 
dedicatory address of the Rev. William J. Stevenson, 
D.D. 

The next pastor of the State Street Church was the 
Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, whose constant care and 
thoughtful sermons will long bear good fruit in the 
vineyard in which he so commendably labored from 
1 885 to 1888. His successor, the Rev. George W. 
Brown, was appointed to the charge on April 16, 1888. 
His former popularity in it as an excellent preacher 
and a much-loved pastor, not only made his welcome 
to the society one of affection, but it also presages the 



METHODISM IN TROY. 75 

blessed work he will accomplish should the blessings 
of health and life be continued him. 

MINISTERS FROM STATE STREET CHURCH. 

Not a few gifted and holy men have gone forth from 
the State Street society to become revered and distin- 
guished standard-bearers of the Cross : James C. Bon- 
tecou, Wright Hazen and Merritt Bates, admitted into 
the ministry, in 1827, by the New York Conference ; 
James B. Houghtaling, admitted by the New York 
Conference, in 1828, who served the Troy Conference 
as secretary, from its organization until i852, when his 
health would no longer permit him to perform the 
duties of that responsible office ; F. G. Hibbard, 
admitted by the New York Conference, in 1830 ; Wil- 
liam F. Hurd and Asa G. Hand, admitted by it in 1831 ; 
James Caughey, admitted by the New York Confer- 
ence, in 1832, who afterward became a highly suc- 
cessful evangelist and was greatly blessed in his 
remarkable revival work on both sides of the Atlantic ; 
Philetus Green, admitted by the New England Con- 
ference, in 1833 ; Moses L. Scudder, admitted by the 
New England Conference, in 1837, who filled many 
prominent positions in the New England states and in 
this state, and was the author of several excellent 
works. I may further mention the names of Orrin 
Pier, H. Robinson, James Hulme, William McComber, 
John Luccook, Coles R. Wilkins, Horace B. Knight, 
Daniel Mason, Robert Patterson, and Thomas A. 
Griffin. The last two are active members of the Troy 
Conference and are doing admirable service for the 



76 METHODISM IN TROY. 

master. The last named minister has occupied the 
highest office in the gift of the conference, that of pre- 
siding elder, and was a member of the General Confer- 
ence. Henry A. Starks and Daniel Marvin, jr., also 
went out from the State Street society and are now 
zealous and accomplished ministers. From the society 
also P. R. Hawxhurst and Charlton T. Lewis, of the 
Troy University, went forth into the world's great 
arena. 

One of the noblest and most distinguished of the 
Methodist ministers who have labored in Troy was the 
Rev. Erastus Wentworth, D. D., who was licensed to 
preach in 1840. As a teacher in Gouverneur Wesleyan 
Seminary and the Troy Conference Academy, as a 
professor of natural sciences in Dickinson College, as 
president of the McKendree College, as a missionary in 
China, as the editor of the Ladies Repository, as a 
member of the committee on the revision of the 
Hymnal, as a magazine and newspaper writer, as a 
literary reviewer, as a friend, a pastor, and a preacher, 
his many qualifications, force of character, and large- 
ness of heart grave him that individual distinction which 
will ever honor his name and endear his memory. 
When he died at Sandy Hill, on May 25, 1886, he 
had reached the ripe age of seventy-three years. It 
was well said of him that he was " a genius, and had 
the brilliancy, the moods, the versatility, and the eccen- 
tricity which are popularly and with comparatively few 
exceptions, properly connected with the idea of genius." 
The day before his death he dictated a note in which 



METHODISM IN TROY. 77 

he says: "I am very sick; willing to live if it be 
God's will." The last word he whispered was " rest." 

REUBEN PECKHAM. 

The death of Reuben Peckham, on Friday morning, 
January 14, 1887, at his residence, No. 102 Third 
Street, deprived the State Street society of one of 
its most active, honored, and godly members. He 
became connected with it in 1834, and from that time 
filled all the offices held by its laymen. Benevolent 
in his gifts, charitable in his opinions, exemplary in his 
life, he was a Methodist without reproach, loved, and 
remembered by all who knew him. The first of his 
Quaker ancestors who settled in America were colo- 
nists in Rhode Island. Samuel Peckham, his father, 
moved thence to Dutchess County, in this state, before 
the Revolutionary war. Later he changed his resi- 
dence to Pittstown, in Rensselaer County, where 
Reuben Peckham was born, February 25, 181 2. At 
the age of eighteen years he was employed by Valen- 
tine and Daniel Marvin, dry-goods merchants, in Troy* 
Subsequently he went to Utica and served as a clerk 
in the store of his brother, John S. Peckham. On his 
return to Troy, in 1836, he entered into partnership 
with John G. Buswell, under the name of Buswell & 
Peckham, stove manufacturers. On the dissolution of 
the firm, in 1841, he removed to New York and there 
engaged in the lumber business as a member of the 
firm of Wall & Peckham. Returning to Troy, he 
purchased, April 1, i85o, the interest of Alvin Williams, 
a member of the firm of Manning & Howland 



78 METHODISM IN TROY. 

(William H. Manning, Gardner Howland, and Alvin 
Williams), which, in 1846, erected the Mount Ida Mill, 
and there began the manufacture of man ilia paper. On 
Reuben Peckham's admission to the firm it took the 
name of Manning & Peckham, by which name the 
business was conducted when he died. 

ELIZABETH HILLMAN. 

Before passing to the history of the eight churches 
in the city, which sprang into existence from the State 
Street society, it would be well to glance briefly at 
several noteworthy occurrences in the lives of two holy 
women whose souls were filled with the spirit of the 
Saviour of men. 

One of the most touching incidents illustrative of the 
sanctifying power of God's grace and the Christian 
fortitude of a pious woman, I may here relate as a 
tribute to the memory of a much -loved relative and 
an estimable member of the State Street and Coneress 
Street societies, Miss Elizabeth Hillman, familiarlv 
called Aunt Betsey Hillman, who was well-known to 
all its people as an earnest Christian and a zealous 
worker in the Lord's vineyard. During revivals she 
frequently gave evidence of her joyous exaltation of 
soul with loud shouts of praise and hallelujahs. On 
Tuesday evening, July 27, i852, while present at a 
prayer-meeting held at the residence of Noah Clapp, 
a member of the State Street Church, she led in 
prayer. One of the special favors which she solicited 
of the Great Ruler and Disposer of events was that 
when her work was done on earth she might be called 



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quickly to heaven, for she dreaded the pains of a pro- 
longed illness. 

On the following morning she took passage on the 
boat Henry Clay, plying between Albany and New 
York. On the way the boat began racing with another 
steamboat, the Armenia, on the opposition line. The 
excited passengers became greatly alarmed for their 
safety. A young woman from Albany was much 
frightened and Miss Hillman, in her endeavors to calm 
her apprehensions, spoke to her about the salvation of 
her soul. Discovering that she had not yet accepted 
Christ as her Saviour, and was wholly unprepared to 
die, Aunt Betsy urged her to give her heart to God. 
This she promised to do, if she should be permitted to 
get off the boat alive. Shortly afterward the boat was 
discovered to be on fire, and was steered toward the 
shore. In attempting to save their lives about fifty of 
the passengers were burned or drowned. The young 
woman and Miss Hillman, in seeking a way of escape, 
were compelled to decide which one of the two should 
perish on board the burning boat. Aunt Betsy at once 
urged her dismayed and sorely-distressed companion 
to leave her, saying : " I am prepared to die, and you 
are not/' The young woman fortunately escaped and 
afterward obtained that peace of soul, of which she 
delighted to speak when tearfully telling of the noble 
unselfishness of the Christian woman who went to 
Heaven in a bright mantle of flame. Her age was 
fifty-seven. Her body was brought home by her 
brother Jacob, who was with her, and her funeral 



8o METHODISM IN TROY. 

services were held in the Congress Street M. E. 
Church. The Rev. Ephraim Goss preached her 
funeral sermon. 

ANN CHAPEL. 

For many years among the members of the State 
Street Church, Ann Chapel was well known for her 
saintly character. She afterward joined the Congress 
Street Church, and was a member of my class. When 
a little girl in England, the great founder of our church, 
John Wesley, had placed his hands on her head and 
given her his blessing. I had frequently visited the 
aged pilgrim and had often prayed with her. W T hen 
she was taken with her last illness, about the year 
1 86 1, I was suddenly impressed by a sense of duty to 
visit her. Leaving my business abruptly, I hastened 
to her dwelling and found her lying in bed in a clean 
and tidy room. Going to the bedside, I inquired how 
Jesus appeared to her then as a Saviour. Her face 
beamed with heavenly light as she began to recite, 

"Jesus, lover of my soul." 

When she had said, " Let me," in the second line of 
the stanza, her voice failed to give utterance to the 
succeeding words. Seeing her emotion, I cheerfully 
said to her, " Sister Chapel, I have always had a great 
reverence for John Wesley, and I have a picture of his 
death-bed hanging in my room at home. Knowing 
that he blessed you, when your were a little girl in 
England, I wish that you would place your hand on 
my head and give me your blessing, after I have 
prayed with you." After my prayer, I leaned over 



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on the bed and she laid her emaciated hand on my 
head, and said, " Yes, a thousand blessings on your 
head. God bless you." O how the glory of that 
blessing seemed to come down upon me! It seemed 
to me that I had never been so blessed in all my life. 
I left her room about noon, and at sunset she entered 
the haven of heavenly rest where there is no night nor 
darkness. Although I have never had the imposed 
hands of a bishop on my head, I have always felt no 
little peace and happiness in having had the blessing of 
Ann Chapel, as a connecting link with the blessing of 
John Wesley. 

THOMAS ARCHIBALD. 

One of the venerable and active members of the 
State Street Church was Thomas Archibald, who, about 
the year 1820, became a class-leader in the society. 
He was licensed to exhort and afterwards to preach. 
He was an intimate acquaintance of the writer when 
still a boy. His class was accustomed to meet in the 
small, frame school-house, which stood on Fifth Street, 
east of the old wooden church. Frequently during 
revival meetings the services of the class were of such 
an interesting character that not a few of the members 
would lose their strength, and when the services in the 
church began some persons would be left in the school- 
room in charge of them, until they had recovered 
their strength. From Thomas Archibald's class the 
Revs. Wright Hazen, Merritt Bates, James C. Bonte- 
cou, and Philetus Green, went into the Methodist 
ministry. This information was furnished by his 



82 METHODISM IN TROY. 

excellent wife who is still living. She is a sister of 
E. A. Burrows, and the mother of J. C. Archibald. She 
also informed the writer that in those days, if any 
member of the society were absent from the class- 
meetings four consecutive times, he or she was dealt 
with for neglect of duty. 




METHODISM IN TROY 



PAWLING AVENUE CHURCH. 



The first Methodist meeting-house at Albia, in the 
fifth ward of the city, was erected by the trustees of 
the State Street society, for the purpose of providing 
its members there with a convenient place for hearing 
preaching and for holding prayer-meetings, when they 
were precluded from attending religious services at the 
State Street Church. On August 15, 1826, the 
trustees appointed John Usher, Barney Weatherwax, 
and Caleb Knight " a committee of superintendence to 
the building of a Methodist meeting-house in the 
village of Albia for the use of the members." In 1829, 
the Rev. John Tackaberry, who had been appointed 
by the conference to assist the Rev. Samuel Merwin, 
pastor of the State Street society, statedly preached in 
the new meeting-house at Albia. In 1830, the Rev. 
Abiathar M. Osbon, assisting the Rev. John B. Stratton, 
also statedly preached there. In 1831, the Rev. 
Abiathar M. Osbon was appointed by conference to 
take charge of the Albia society. In 1853, tne ^ ev - 



^- V '& 




PAWLING AVENUE ( ALBIA ) M. E CHURCH. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 85 

Aaron Hall was appointed to take charge of Levings 
Chapel and the Albia society, which two were under 
the same pastor until 1861, when the Rev. L. Barber 
was appointed to Albia. In the following year no 
appointment was made for Albia, but Rev. G. H. 
Gregory supplied the pulpit. In 1863, the Rev. W. 
H. Hughes was sent to the society, which had then 
one hundred and twenty-two members. In 1868, the 
society was designated by the name of the Pawling 
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. The stone 
tablet in the front wall of the church bears this inscrip- 
tion : "Erected A. D. 1827. Rebuilt A. D. i858." 
The present membership of the church is 166. 



86 METHODISM IN TROY. 



FIFTH AVENUE (NORTH SECOND ST.) CHURCH. 



The expediency of taking advantage of the growth 
of the city northward of Grand Division Street, and of 
having a church in which the seats were free, caused 
the State Street society to give consideration to the 
project of providing a place of worship in the north 
part of Troy. On May 23, 1831, the Quarterly Con- 
ference appointed a committee, Eli Townsend, Stephen 
Monroe and William C. Urena, " to provide a place 
for preaching somewhere in the bounds of the fourth 
ward." On August 8, that year, the committee 
reported " that the only place to be had " was " the 
dwelling-house " of Stephen Monroe. A committee 
of five persons, William W. Whipple, Eli Townsend, 
Stephen Andres, Daniel Marvin, jr., and Independence 
Starks, was then appointed " to provide a place or 
places for meetings in the first and fourth wards " of 
the city. Considering that the lot on the northeast 
corner of North Second and Jacob streets would be 
an eligible site for a church, Eli Townsend, James 



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Wallace, and Jefferson Gardner, on August 13, that 
year, privately purchased the plot for $1,500, and 
determined to hold the ground in their possession until 
the State Street society should take proper action in 
the matter. On the evening of that day, the trustees 
of the State Street society resolved that a subscription 
should be " circulated throughout the City of Troy and 
elsewhere for the purpose of building a Methodist 
Episcopal Church in the fourth ward " of the city 
"with free seats." On May 12, 1832, they voted to 
buy the lot "owned by Eli Townsend and others, 
opposite Lawyer Ross' house," and on March 18, 
1833, appointed Eli Townsend and Zina P. Egleston 
to purchase the property " at the price of $1,500 and 
the expenses " which had accrued thereon since the 
lot was bought by its three owners from Latham 
Cornell. On June 14, 1834, the trustees resolved to 
proceed with the building of the church according to 
the plan furnished them by G. & H. Landon, and 
appointed Zina P. Egleston, Thomas L. Ostrom, and 
Jesse Anthony, a committee " to take the supervision 
of the building" of the church, and " to make contracts 
for the same." In furnishing the audience room, the 
trustees voted on August 21, 1835, to put moreen 
curtains " in the rear of the pulpit." The building 
was a brick structure with a basement. As soon as 
the rooms in the basement were finished, they were 
used for prayer and other meetings, and by the 
Sunday-school, which had been organized on June 2, 
that year, in Miss Annie Manwarring's school-room on 



88 METHODISM IN TROY. 

the west side of North Second Street, between Federal 
and Jacob streets. On Sunday afternoon, August 30, 
Bishop Elijah Hedding dedicated the church. 

DIVISION OF THE PROPERTY. 

To become an incorporated body, the congregation 
on October 12, 1835, elected Eli Townsend, Jesse 
Anthony, John W. Mackey, John Wright, and Zina P. 
Egleston, trustees of " the North Second Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church of the City of Troy." On 
January 16, 1836, the trustees of the State Street Church 
agreed to divide the property of the society between 
the congregations. The society was then encumbered 
with a debt of #9,675.97, which had been made by the 
building of the North Second Street Church. The State 
Street congregation agreed to assume the payment of 
$5,338.53 of the debt, and the North Second Street 
the remainder — $4,337.44. Under this arrangement, 
by an order of the Chancellor of the State of New 
York, the trustees of the State Street Church, or 
" the Methodist Episcopal Church of Troy," deeded to 
the trustees of the North Second Street society the 
lot and church on the northeast corner of North 
Second and Jacob streets. The Rev. Samuel D. Fer- 
guson preached to the congregation from 1835 to 
1836. The first pastor of the church, the Rev. Charles 
Sherman, took charge of the society in 1836. During 
the second pastorate, in 1843-44, his health failed him, 
and he died, March 10, 1844. He was succeeded, in 
1838, by the Rev. P. C. Oakley In 1839, the Rev. 
Noah Levings was appointed the pastor of the society. 




FIFTH AVENUE (NORTH 2d ST.) M. E. CHURCH. 



90 METHODISM IN TROY. 

On February 7, 1840, he wrote to the editors ol the 
Christian Advocate and Journal: ''The Lord is 
carrying on a blessed revival of religion in the North 
Second Street Church in this city. It has been in 
progress since the new year commenced. * * * 
The work has taken a deep hold of the public mind, 
and has resulted in the conversion of 60 or 70 souls. 
Among them are several heads of families, and a 
number of North River captains, who acknowledged 
when they set out that they had been beating down 
the Gulf of Destruction by far too long, and that they 
had resolved to ' down helm and come about.' They 
are now got under way for Heaven, with a fine breeze 
and a fair prospect of landing in glory." 

On March 13, that year, he again wrote: "The 
good work is still in progress. * * * We have 
received 160, and others are expected to join soon." 
During the pastorate of the Rev. H. L. Starks, several 
gracious revivals blessed his labors. On November 
28, 1 84 1, he wrote to the editors of the Christian 
Advocate and Journal : " Upward of 30 have been 
converted within the last two and a half months ; 36 
have united with us on trial, and 8 were at the altar 
last Sabbath evening." 

On the 6th of April following, he thus wrote of 
another work of grace : " During the past winter 
God has very graciously favored us with an outpour- 
ing of his Spirit. * * * Upward of 80 have been 
converted. About 60 have joined the church." 

The next pastor, the Rev. Merritt Bates, also was 



METHODISM IN TROY. 91 

blessed in this field, and wrote on February 20, 1843 : 
" A protracted meeting has been in progress in the 
North Second Street M. E. Church for several weeks 
past, and 2 1 1 have been received on probation since 
it commenced." 

On January 26, 1846, the Rev. S. L. Stillman wrote 
to the leading church paper : " The work is glori- 
ously prosperous among us in the North Second Street 
Church. More than fifty persons have recently signi- 
fied their desire to flee from the wrath to come and to 
be saved from their sins. Between thirty and forty, 
including several of the choir and their leader, have 
been converted within the last two weeks, and about 
thirty have given their names, and pledged themselves 
to travel with us to the heavenly rest." 

The following interesting incidents were communi- 
cated by the Rev. James H. Darrow, on June 24, 
1848, to the editors of the Christian Advocate and 
Journal : 

" I am happy to inform you that choir singing is 
abolished in the North Second Street M. E. Church in 
this city. I wish you could worship with us once, and 
witness the soul-stirring melody made by hundreds of 
spiritual songsters. I have inquired diligently and 
cannot find one person who is dissatisfied with the 
change. I have never heard of a similar change in 
any other church that was the cause of dissatisfaction, 
while, on the other hand, I never knew of choir-sing- 
ing being adopted in a church without causing more 
or less dissatisfaction ; and, I may add, animosities, 



92 METHODISM IN TROY. 

strifes, bickerings, jealousies, and the like, have been 
generally the fruit. We are in the midst of a revival." 

The erection of a new church edifice was first 
discussed by the trustees of the society on April 4, 
1854. At their next meeting, a week later, they 
resolved to build the church on the site of the first 
structure. While the new church was building, the 
society worshipped in the Tabernacle, or old Fourth 
Presbyterian Church, on the northwest corner of 
Elbow (Fulton), and Fifth streets. The new house of 
worship was dedicated by Bishop Janes on Friday, 
December 29, 1854. The society's present member- 
ship is 566. 

By a resolution of the Board of Trustees, passed on 
Thursday evening, February 9, 1888, the name of the 
society was changed to that of the Fifth Avenue Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church of Troy, in consequence of 
North Second Street being changed to Fifth Avenue 
by the Common Council of the city. 

The Troy Conference has held five of its annual 
sessions in the churches of the society : May 31, 1843 ; 
May 9, 1855; April 12, 1871 ; April 19, 1882; and 
April 11, 1888. 

The following members of the society became 
ministers of the Methodist and other churches : James 
B. Wood, James Lemon, Charles S. Harrower, Gilbert 
D. Gregory, Walton W. Battershall, George A. Hall, 
George Woodworth, Ibra Cannon, and Marvin R. 
Vincent. 



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LEVINGS CHURCH. 

A number of persons, designating themselves 
members of the Fourth Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Troy, held a meeting on September 24, 1838, at their 
usual place of divine worship at the Nail Works, for 
the purpose of organizing a Methodist society, and 
there elected Stephen Frank, William Stewart, Charles 
Dibble, Joseph Carlin, and Philip Hogle " trustees of 
Levings Chapel in the city of Troy." The society 
erected a house of worship in i85o. The Rev. J. W. 
Belknap was appointed, in 1 851, to take charge of the 
society and that of the Third Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. He was succeeded, in i852, by the 
Rev. Tobias Spicer, who was appointed pastor of the 
Levings Chapel society. Speaking of his appointment 
he observes : " My labors this year were mostly in 
South Troy, where we had a feeble society, which 
had lately built a new church. In 1853, the Rev. Aaron 
Hall had the appointment to Levings Chapel and 
Albia. In 1861, the two societies had separate appoint- 



94 METHODISM IN TROY. 

ments, the Rev. S. P. Williams receiving that of 
Levings Chapel. During the second year of his pas- 
torate the number of the members of the society was 
one hundred and forty. In 1888, the number of 
members was two hundred and twelve. 

Some years ago the Quarterly Conference passed a 
resolution changing the name of Levings Chapel to 
that of Levings Church, and since that time the 
society has been recognized by that name, although 
the corporate name, Levings Chapel, has not been 
changed. 

The following persons, who were members of this 
society, entered the Methodist ministry : William H. 
Smith and Samuel A. Kirkbride. 





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96 METHODISM IN TROY, 



THIRD STREET CHURCH. 



The origin of the Third Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church can be traced to a statement made by William 
Barrett, a class-leader of the State Street Church, at 
the leaders' meeting held on May 2, 1842. There 
speaking of the prospect of advancing the cause of 
Methodism in South Troy, he suggested the suita- 
bleness of the house belonging to him in that part of 
the city for preaching. In the spring of 1843, Daniel 
Hudson moved from the northern part of Troy, where 
he had been superintendent of a Methodist Sunday- 
school, to the southern part, in the vicinity of the house 
of William Barrett, in which, from time to time, prayer- 
meetings had been held. A class was then formed and 
Daniel Hudson was chosen as its leader. At the leaders' 
meeting, held at the State Street Church, on July 3, 
1843, Gardner Landon, Valentine Marvin, George 
Christie, Nathan Taylor, and William Barrett were 
appointed a committee to take into consideration the 
propriety of securing lots in South Troy and of 



METHODISM IN TROY. 97 

erecting a church on them. On December 4, 1843, a 
resolution was passed by the class-leaders and stewards 
of the State Street Church to pay William Barrett $i5 
for the use of his house until May 1 , 1 844, for preach- 
ing, prayer-meetings, and a Sunday-school. Another 
resolution was passed, under which George Christie, 
Gardner Landon, William Barrett, and E. S. Brainard, 
were appointed a committee to circulate a subscription 
paper for the purpose of raising money to build a 
church in South Troy. On March 4, 1844, William 
Barrett and Daniel Hudson stated at a meeting of the 
class-leaders and stewards of the State Street Church 
that the people of the South Troy class preferred to 
build a church themselves, to elect their own trustees, 
to hold the deeds of the property, and to have no 
connection with the State Street Church. On March 
29, that year, George Christie, Joseph Carlin, William 
Barrett, Daniel Hudson, and Enoch Hunt were elected 
trustees of "the Third Street Methodist Episcopal 
Society of the City of Troy," three of them being 
members of State Street Church. In October, that 
year, the Sunday-school was organized, with Daniel 
Hudson as male superintendent, and Miss Olive Rich- 
ards female superintendent, William Barrett secretary 
and librarian, and fifteen teachers. In 1845, a lot on 
the northeast corner of Third and Monroe streets was 
purchased by the society. The Rev. O. Emerson was 
appointed to the Third Street Church, in 1846. The 
number of members, probably, did not exceed thirty, 
and that of the Sunday-school seventy-five. It is 



98 METHODISM IN TROY. 

related that while the church was building, the Rev. 
O. Emerson once preached from the steps of the 
edifice. In 1847, the Rev. E. Noble was appointed to 
the Third and Congress street churches. On December 
25, Christmas day, that year, the church was dedicated 
by the Rev. Charles Pitman, D. D. The frame building 
was one story in height. Although, in 1849, the Rev. 
A. A. Farr was appointed to the Third and Congress 
street churches, the Rev. Lorenzo Marshall, then just 
graduated from college, supplied the pulpit of the 
society. In 1850, the society had fifty members and 
fourteen probationers. That year the society became 
a separate charge, and the Rev. Cornelius R. Ford 
was appointed its pastor. In i85i, the Rev. J. W. 
Belknap was appointed to the Third Street Church and 
Levings Chapel, but in the following year was given 
charge of the Third Street society. During the three 
years' pastorate of the Rev. M. A. Senter, 1 868-1 870, 
the society's membership was considerably augmented. 
The earnest pastor, assisted by the Troy Praying Band, 
inaugurated " a marked and wide-spread revival," 
which resulted in the conversion of fifty-eight persons. 
In 1870, Joseph Hillman obtained a gift of #500 to the 
society by selling certain property belonging to I. 
Townsend Burden. In 1873, tne church was enlarged 
by the construction of a lower story of brick, on which 
the wooden structure of the first edifice was placed ; 
the society worshipping meanwhile in the South Troy 
Baptist Chapel. In 1877, the circumstances of the 
society were so adverse that no appointment was made 




THIRD STREET M. E. CHURCH. 



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to supply its pulpit. It is said of the office of superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school, " there was at this time 
no man in the church who could, or would, accept this 
office, until Thomas W. Goring, an Episcopalian in 
name, not converted in heart, who, rather than see 
the school die, allowed himself to be elected superin- 
tendent of the school. Not feeling able to open the 
school with prayer, he at first called upon the older 
sisters of the church to pray." It is further related, 
that had it not been " for him and the school " the 
society " would have been blotted out." Supplies for 
the pulpit were frequently obtained from the local 
ministry and occasionally the pastors of the other de- 
nominations would preach to the society and bury the 
dead. In the spring of 1879, the name of the church 
was changed to that of Wesley Chapel, and the 
society united with that of the State Street Church. 
In May, 1879, Daniel Klock, jr., succeeded Thomas 
W. Goring as superintendent of the Sunday-schooL 
From 1880 to 1884, the society does not appear by 
name in the minutes of the Troy Conference, it being 
included in State Street Church. In the spring of 
1884, the society having been reorganized by the 
zealous efforts of Daniel Klock, jr., the efficient super- 
intendent of the Sunday-school, the Rev. E. H. Brown 
was sent by the conference to the church. About 
thirty members came from other churches and twenty- 
one probationers were added. The Sunday-school 
had then about seventeen officers and teachers and 
seventy-five scholars. In 1886, the name of the 



METHODISM IN TROY. 101 

society, the Third Street Methodist Episcopal Society 
was revived, and that of Wesley Chapel discarded. 

Under the successful management of its able super- 
intendent, Daniel Klock, jr., the Sunday-school at the 
beginning of the year 1888 had 224 members, includ- 
ing officers and teachers ; the average attendance 
being 151. In consequence of the smallness of the 
Sunday-school room, an enlargement of it has been 
made recently to provide better accommodations for 
the increased number of scholars. The members of 
the church now number 116. 



102 METHODISM IN TROY. 



TRINITY CHURCH. 



The circumstances attending the organization of 
Trinity Church are briefly detailed in the first records 
of the society. " The Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Congress Street, Troy, N. Y., was organized in the 
month of October, 1846, in the following manner: 
Several persons from the State Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and the North Second Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, came with certificates from the pastors 
of those churches to Rev. Oliver Emerson, pastor of 
the Third Street Church, and wished to come under 
his care and to be formed into a class to meet in Con- 
gress Street, Ida Hill. They were received and a class 
was formed under the care of Stephen Monroe and 
William H. Robbins." The members of this class 
who had been holding prayer-meetings and worship- 
ping at the residence of Isaac Hillman, No. 188 Con- 
gress Street many years, met there on October 28* 
that year, and elected Isaac Hillman, Jonathan T. 
Williams, William H. Robbins, Stephen Monroe, and 




TRINITY M. E. CHURCH. 

( Formerly Congress Street M E. Church ) 



104 METHODISM IN TROY. 

James N. Austin, trustees of the " Congress Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church.'' During the first six 
months of its existence, the society had a rapid growth 
and about fifty persons, converted at its meetings, 
were received as probationers. In 1847, at the close 
of the Rev. Oliver Emerson's pastorate of the Third 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Edward 
Noble was appointed to the Third Street and Congress 
Street churches. In June, that year, an old blacksmith- 
shop, a wooden building, on the south side of Congress 
Street, at its intersection with Ferry Street, was recon- 
structed for a house of worship, which was thereafter 
familiarly called the " Hemlock Church," On its com- 
pletion, the Sunday-school of the society, organized at 
that time, began holding its sessions in the new meeting- 
house. The small building proving inadequate for the 
uses of the congregation, the society determined to 
build a larger edifice of brick, and purchased the site 
of the present church, on the north side of Thirteenth 
Street, near its intersection with Congress Street. This 
change of location was so unsatisfactory to William H. 
Robbins, and a number of the members, that they with- 
drew from the society and organized another, which they 
denominated the " True Wesleyan Church," and some 
time afterward erected a brick house of worship on the 
site of the Hemlock Church. Notwithstanding this seces- 
sion, the Congress Street society began the erection of 
an attractive church. The structure would have been 
smaller in its dimensions and of less capacity, had not 
Isaac Hillman, who assisted in the measuring of the 



METHODISM IN TROY. 105 

foundation lines, added five more feet to the width and 
ten more to the depth of the ground plan than the 
trustees had voted. The increased expense of con- 
structing the building according to these measurements 
was paid by subscriptions obtained by Mr. Hillman for 
that purpose. 

The organization of the Congress Street Church may 
be traced to a prayer-meeting first held about the year 
1832, and subsequently twice a week, on Sunday 
afternoons and Friday evenings, at the house of Isaac 
Hillman, standing a short distance east of the site of 
the Hemlock Church on Congress Street. It was 
afterward asserted that more souls had been converted 
at those prayer-meetings than in the State Street 
Church, while they were held. Frequently the inter- 
est in the Sunday afternoon prayer-meeting would 
become so great that they would be continued until 
late in the evening. Committees were several times 
appointed by the Official Board of the State Street 
Church to take charge of the prayer-meetings on Sun- 
day afternoons in order to have them close before the 
evening services began at the church. It is related 
that the members of these committees would become 
so interested and blessed themselves while attending 
them that they would forget to discharge the duty 
imposed upon them of closing the meetings at the time 
designated, Finally William W. Whipple, a self- 
possessed and very orderly man, a member of the 
Official Board, was selected and instructed to have the 
prayer- meeting closed before the evening services at 



METHODISM IN TROY. 107 

the church, He returned from his mission convinced 
that much good was accomplished by the prayer- 
meeting held on Sunday afternoon, and said to the 
members of the Official Board that " they must be 
careful how they put their hands on that prayer- 
meeting, because more souls were converted there 
than in the whole church beside." In fact those prayer- 
meetings were great feeders to the church. 

ISAAC HILLMAN SAVED AT SEA. 

A most striking and memorable incident I may 
here relate to illustrate the value and importance of 
prayer, and the Friday night prayer-meetings. About 
the year 1835, Isaac Hillman, the writer's father, 
intending to go on business to New Orleans, before 
starting on so long and perilous a journey, as it was in 
those days, requested that prayers might be offered 
in the meetings for his health and safe return. They 
were promised him, as were the prayers of the pastor, 
the Rev. Truman Seymour. He took passage at 
New York in the ship Lewis Cass. Shortly after 
getting out at sea, a severe gale was encountered 
which continued with great violence for nine days. 
When off the Bahama Islands, in a most dangerous part 
of the Atlantic, the captain of the vessel perceiving that 
the ship could not much longer be kept from going to 
pieces, gave up all hope of saving the vessel, and ordered 
the passengers to be prepared for the small boats. 
Speaking of his feelings at that time, Mr. Hillman after- 
ward remarked, " I looked out upon the tumultuous 
waves which madly tossed the unmanageable ship this 



io8 METHODISM IN TROY 

way and that way, and said to myself, ' Well, the sea will 
be my grave ; thank God I am ready ! ' But just then 
the thought occurred to me, 4 Why, to-night is Friday 
night, and there is a prayer-meeting at my house, and 
the brethren are praying for me.' I went down into 
the cabin, and instead of preparing to leave the ship as 
I had been ordered, I fell on my knees and began to 
pray. It was not long before I saw with the eyes of 
faith the sails filled with the wind from off the islands, 
and the imperiled vessel sailing away from the danger- 
ous banks upon which we had been driving. I 
hastened on deck and crying out with a raised voice to 
attract the attention of the officers, crew, and passen- 
gers, I exclaimed, ' To-night is Friday night, and there 
is a prayer-meeting now holding at my house, a 
number of people are praying for me, and we shall be 
saved.' So confident was I of our safety that I went 
down into the cabin again and fell asleep. Near 
midnight the captain came down and calling me, said, 
' Mr. Hillman, wake up, we are all safe.' Sure enough 
the wind had veered and the vessel had barely escaped 
shipwreck. I arose and went on deck and found the 
rejoicing passengers had been invited by the delighted 
captain to partake of some refreshments in honor of the 
safety of the ship and all on board. Filled with deep 
gratitude to God for his great goodness, I said to the 
assembled officers and passengers, ' Let us first return 
thanks to the Great Ruler for his delivering us from 
the dangers which have threatened us.' Not only did 
the captain but all the officers, some of whom had been 




ISAAC HILLMAN. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



exceedingly profane during the early part of the 
voyage, kneel with the rest of us while I offered to God 
our hearty thanks for his merciful dealings with us." 

The corner-stone of the present brick church was 
laid in October, 1848. The building was dedicated on 
July 12, 1849, by the Rev. Bishop L. L. Hamline, of 
Ohio, who was assisted by the Rev. Bishop Elijah 
Hedding. The pews in the church were free, and 
since its erection no rentals for sittings have been 
imposed or collected. The whole cost of the site, 
building, and furniture, was #6,199.84. The new church 
was indebted to Isaac Hillman and his sister Elizabeth, 
and also to Alvin Williams, who, together paid about 
one- half of the entire cost. The society had then one 
hundred and nine members and forty-two probationers. 
That year Alvin Williams, Joseph Hillman, Gardner 
Howland, George Christie, and A. D. Wilcox, became 
members of the society, giving it not only a strong 
financial support, but also the advantages of their 
religious experiences. In 1850, the society became an 
independent organization and that year the Troy Con- 
ference gave it the Rev. A. A. Farr, as pastor. In 
1853, a well-appointed parsonage was erected on the 
west side of the church at an expenditure of $2,876.48. 

The church was enlarged in i860, giving it sittings 
for two hundred more people. The building was then 
rededicated by the Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson. 
Two years later, the Sunday-school rooms were 
enlarged at a cost of $600. The expenses were met 
by the profits of an excursion from Troy to Saratoga 



METHODISM IN TROY. in 

Springs, projected and arranged by the superintendent 
of the Sunday-school, Joseph Hillman. There were 
three trains, each composed of eighteen cars. The total 
receipts were about $2,200 and the expenses $1,400. 
The Rev. Bishop Simpson delivered an address. A 
company of singers from New York, the Tremaine 
family, gave a concert, and Dods worth's Band from 
New York City, and Doring's from Troy, furnished the 
instrumental music. In 1880, the church was renovated 
and enlarged and attractively improved in appearance 
by the addition of corner towers and other architect- 
ural features, at a cost of $14,084.94. The building 
was rededicated December 28, 1880. 

From the society of this church have gone forth to 
preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ such 
eminent and worthy ministers as the Revs. Henry S. 
White, Fred. Widmer, John Pilkinton, Robert G. 
Adams, David B. Clark, H. C. Farrar, J. Wesley Heath, 
E. H. Dutcher, and E. Orville Howland. The present 
membership of the church is 482. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



GRACE (VAIL AVENUE) CHURCH. 



In 1843 there was a Methodist Sunday-school 
conducted in the northern part of the city of which 
Daniel Hudson was superintendent. In later years 
its sessions were held in the district school-house in 
the tenth ward, in Turner's Lane, now Glen Avenue. 
On March 15, 1852, a number of Methodists, worship- 
ping in the school-house, elected there Titus Eddy, 
Oliver Boutwell, George Smith, Samuel G. Sargeant, 
E. R. Swasey, and Sylvester Cooper, trustees of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in North Troy. In 1853, 
the society, then known as the Batestown Mission, 
and that of Green Island, had the Rev. John L. Cook 
as pastor. In 1854, Reuben Gregg was appointed to 
the Green Island and North Troy Mission ; the two 
places reporting forty-six members. On May 15, that 
year, the name of the society was changed to that of 
the North Troy Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
1858, the present church was erected, and on Decem- 
ber 10, that year, it was dedicated. In 1867, the 
society took the name of the Vail Avenue Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and on Monday evening, April 2, 
1888, it was changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Troy, N.Y. The present number of mem- 
bers of the society is 506. 




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114 METHODISM IN TROY. 



FIRST GERMAN CHURCH. 



Although Troy had from a very early date not a few 
German inhabitants, it was not until 1855 that an 
effort was made to form a religious society, composed 
exclusively of German people. At that time it was 
estimated that there were no less than 2500 Germans 
in the city. The first German minister, who undertook 
to form a German society of a religious denomination 
in Troy, was the Rev. Mr. Swartz, the pastor of the 
German Methodist Church in Albany, who in 1855 
began to conduct religious services in a building on 
the northwest corner of First and Ferry streets. 
Some months later, the Rev. F. W. Dinger of the 
New York Conference continued these services in 
the True Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, on 
the south side of Congress Street, at its intersection 
with Ferry Street. In that building, the First German 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Troy was organized, 
on July 25, 1857. On that day, the first quarterly 
conference, presided over by the Rev. John Sauter, 




GERMAN M. E. CHURCH. 



u6 METHODISM IN TROY. 

presiding elder, was held in the church. The follow- 
ing lay members attended the meeting : William 
Wackar, Christian Schaible, Henry Mabeus, John 
Eppele, and Albert Fischer. On August 16, i858, 
Wendell Hess was licensed as a class leader and an 
exhorter, which positions he still holds. The Sunday- 
school was organized on April 20, i856; William 
Mackar being elected superintendent ; the school 
having four teachers and eleven scholars. The society 
was incorporated March 31, 1859, the articles being 
witnessed by Henry Lahann, Cooper Hart, Albert 
Fischer, and Godlove Xander, and sworn to before 
Joseph Hillman, commissioner of deeds. Shortly 
afterward the society purchased two lots on the north- 
west corner of Union and State streets for $1,500. 
The buildings on the lots were destroyed in the great 
fire of May 10, 1862. The society having received 
through the action of conference, $1,800 from the sale 
of the German Methodist Church property in Albany, 
was enabled to undertake the erection of the present 
house of worship on State Street. The brick church 
was dedicated on March 2 5, 1863, with appropriate 
services. The indebtedness of the society was paid 
in 1872, by the proceeds of a fair, which realized 
$1,200, and $800 was obtained by Mrs. Joseph Hillman 
from personal friends. In token of their appreciation 
of her generous efforts, the officers of the church 
presented to Mrs. Hillman at the church on Christ- 
mas day, 1872, a quarto German Bible and a silver 
cake basket. The society received support from 



METHODISM IN TROY. 117 

the East German Conference, until 1868, when it 
became self-sustaining. On May 2, 1868, the East 
German Conference held its annual session in the 
church ; Bishop Scott presiding. At this meeting of 
the conference, the present pastor of the church, the 
Rev. William H. Kurth was ordained an elder. The 
church has had two local preachers ; the Rev. Henry 
Groner, who resigned in 1878, and the Rev. Frederick 
Beiermeister, who was licensed in 1884. The present 
membership of the church is 141. 



u8 METHODISM IN TROY. 



AFRICAN ZION CHURCH. 

The origin of the African Zion Methodist Episcopal 
Church, is traceable to a class connected with the 
State Street Church, called "the colored class," which 
was led in 1830, by John Dungy, an intelligent and pious 
man of African descent, who in 1831 became the pastor 
of the small congregation of colored people, which that 
year was known as the African Methodist Church of 
Troy. In 1832 the society took the name of the 
Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Troy. 
A small wooden dwelling, on Fifth Street, north of 
Liberty Street, was fitted for a house of worship for 
the congregation. In 1841, the society purchased a 
lot and building on Fifth Street, and altered the 
structure into a church. On February 23, 1842, 
William Meads, Jacob Brown, Lewis Butler, Littleton 
Becket, and Lewis Jones were elected trustees of the 
Wesleyan Methodist Zion Church of the city of Troy. 
The property was sold about the year 1863. In the 
spring of 1864, George Bristol purchased for the 




A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. 



120 METHODISM IN TROY. 

congregation, the property on the east side of Seventh 
Street, between State Street and Broadway, the title 
of which was afterward conveyed to Joseph Hillman, 
Reuben Peckham, and Adam C. Fellows as trustees. 
On the resignation of A. C. Fellows, H. Clay Bascom, 
was elected his successor, and he in turn was succeed- 
ed by Henry C. Curtis. On the death of Reuben 
Peckham, Edward O. House was appointed to fill his 
place. On the brown stone tablet in the front wall of 
the brick building, in which the congregation worships, 
is inscribed : A. M. E. Zion Church, organized, A. D., 
1832, erected A. D., i865. The present membership 
is 79. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



PROGRESS AND GROWTH. 



The progress of Methodism in Troy can evidently 
be seen in the number of persons who from time to 
time represented the membership of the society or 
societies. During the first thirty years of the century, 
from 1800 to 1830, the increase of the membership 
was 1623. per cent., while the increase of the popula- 
tion of the place was only 963 per cent.; showing that 
that of the church was 660 per cent, greater than that 
of the village and city ; for in 1 8 1 6 Troy became a 
city. From 1830 to i860 the increase of the society 
membership was 284 per cent, while the population of 
the city increased 340 per cent, indicating that the 
growth of the church did not equal that of the city. 
There were many reasons for this noticeable difference 
of growth. The most adverse as regards the pros- 
perity of the society, during the second period were 
the personal disagreements, disputes, and delinquen- 
cies of certain members which led to church trials and 
arbitrations. The withdrawal of a prominent family 



122 METHODISM IN TROY. 

from the State Street society, if I may particularize, 
occasioned no little ill-feeling and had for a time a 
harmful effect upon the membership of the church. 
One of the brightest and most popular young men 
of the church was, in 1838 and 1839, paying his 
addresses to one of the daughters of a leading officer 
of the church. From some source the latter obtained 
the information, which was false, that the young man 
was wild and unworthy of his daughter's society, where- 
upon her father informed him that he could not permit 
him to visit his house. Notwithstanding this prohi- 
bition, the pertinacious suitor found opportunities ot 
seeing the young lady at other places. Learning this, 
her father said, " Daughter, I hear that you and your 
admirer still continue to meet each other." She replied, 
" Yes, we do father." Then said he, " You must leave 
my house ; I disown you from this time forth." The 
young woman, it is related, put on her bonnet and 
shawl and started to go to the house of her sister. On 
her way thither, she called on her lover and told him 
what had happened. He was then a clerk. He 
went with her to the house of her sister, sent for the 
Rev. Stephen Remington, and was there married to 
her. One of the sons-in-law made the remark that 
if he were in her father's place he would horsewhip 
the minister who had performed the marriage service. 
This led to a church trial, and the son-in-law was 
expelled from the society. He appealed from the 
decision of the committee to the Quarterly Confer- 
ence, which confirmed the action of the committee. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 123 

The society became so extremely partisan that when 
her uncle, who had taken offence, resigned the office 
of trustee, in June, 1839, the members elected the 
young man in his place. Considering that he was not 
rightfully elected, he would not consent to accept the 
office. Not only did the uncle and his wife withdraw 
from the church, but also the girl's father and mother. 
The girl's sister remained a member of the society 
until the day of her death, a few years ago. The young 
couple afterward removed to Cincinnati and there 
the young man became a wealthy merchant. It was 
at his residence that the Rev. Noah Levings, D. D., 
died on January 9, 1849. 

THE SLAVERY QUESTION. 

I may here refer to the change of opinion regarding 
the social status of such colored people as were slaves, 
to show the advanced views taken of it by some of the 
members of the State Street society. At a meeting of 
the Quarterly Conference held at the church, March 
23, 1 84 1, Gardner Landon offered the following 
preamble and resolutions : 

" Whereas we are taught by our holy religion that 
God has made of one blood all nations of men for to 
dwell on the face of the earth, and that He is no 
respecter of persons, but in every nation he that 
feareth Him and worketh righteousness is accepted 
with Him, and 

" Whereas, every person who is in good and regular 
standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church is entitled 
to all the privileges and immunities of said church, and 



124 METHODISM IN TROY. 

" Whereas the late General Conference, the repre- 
sentative head of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
these United States, did pass a resolution to this effect, 
that it is inexpedient and unjustifiable to admit any 
colored person to testify against any white person in 
church trials in any of the states where the laws forbid 
them to testify in court of law, and have thereby 
deprived many of the members of said church of their 
Christian rights and duties, is at variance with the 
word of God, inasmuch as it makes the church a 
respecter of persons, therefore, resolved : 

" First. That we sympathize with those members 
who are deprived by said resolution of one of their 
dearest rights. 

" Second. That we cannot, as official members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, subscribe to the doctrine in 
said resolution without doing violence to our conscience. 
" Third. That this Quarterly Conference Meeting 
petition the Troy Annual Conference, at their next 
session, to take the resolution referred to in the 
preamble into their serious consideration, and use all 
the influence they possess as Methodist ministers to 
have said resolution rescinded at the next session of 
the General Conference." 

There was a marked hesitation shown by the 
members of the Quarterly Conference in acting upon 
the proposed resolutions, and it was not until February, 
1842, that the first resolution was amended and 
adopted in this form : " Resolved that we sympathize 
with them in their present circumstances." 



METHODISM IN TROY. 125 

The Rev. Merritt Bates, while pastor ot the North 
Second Street Church, during the years 1 842-1 843, 
preached a number of sermons in which he advanced 
some extreme views regarding the rights of slaves. 
The official board of the society, desiring to preserve 
the peace and unity of the church, requested him to be 
silent on the subject which was causing no little discord 
among the members, but he, with conscious rectitude, 
did not concede to the board the right of commanding 
him in the pulpit. His strong utterances respecting 
slavery caused a charge of misconduct to be brought 
against him, in the Troy Conference. The charge, how- 
ever, was not, well sustained, and he was appointed to 
Rensselaerville, in Albany county, in 1844. He soon 
afterward withdrew from the Troy Conference and 
severed his connection with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. With a number of the dissatisfied members of 
the North Second Street Church, and some from the 
other Methodist churches in the city, he formed, in 
1844, a society which took the name of the True 
Wesleyan Methodist Church of Troy. The society for 
several years worshipped in a wooden building on the 
south side of Federal Street, between River and North 
Second streets, and then ceased to exist, most of its 
members returning to the Methodist societies to which 
they had previously belonged. His return to the Troy 
Conference, the manner of which was alike honorable 
to the conference and to himself, occurred in i85o. 
" For the following thirteen years in which he again 
fought ' in the lines,' he showed the tempered zeal of a 



126 METHODISM IN TROY. 

veteran, cheerfully accepting the full share of sacrifices 
incident to the itinerancy, and never shirking the part 
of danger." 

The question of the rights ot slaves and slave- 
holders connected with the Methodist Church, which 
had caused for a number of years not only acri- 
monious debate and no end of discussion in the 
different church societies, in the city and the church at 
large, led, in 1845, to that territorial partisanship which 
divided the Methodist church north and south. The 
question had its effect upon the growth of the church, 
in this city, and its membership was no doubt lessened 
by the controversies caused by it, during the second 
period now under review. 

THE DOCTRINE OF HOLINESS. 

I may also cite as another cause of the retarded 
growth of the church, in the second period, the 
changed view taken by people of the Wesleyan 
doctrine of holiness, one of the fundamental doctrines 
of the church. It came to be very unpopular and the 
preachers very seldom made it the subject of their 
sermons. Some of the younger preachers went so far 
as to declare that " Wesley was bosh." The decline 
of religious life in the State Street Church was such 
that the leaders, at their meeting in October, 1837, 
resolved : " In view of the present state of religion in 
our church and the importance of promoting holiness 
of heart and life among our members, and also of 
laboring for the conversion of sinners, that it is expe- 
dient and is now the special duty of the class-leaders 



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to visit each member of their respective classes and 
converse closely with them on the state of their souls, 
and to inquire into the state of religion and religious 
duty in their families, and to press upon them the duty 
of punctual attendance on public worship, or prayer 
and class-meetings, and of interesting themselves in 
the work of God." The Rev. John Clark, when 
presiding elder of the Troy district, in 1847, preached 
a sermon in the State Street Church in which there 
was so much false doctrine respecting holiness, as 
taught by the church, that the Rev. Jesse T. Peck and 
the Rev. Sanford Washburn arraigned him before the 
conference in Troy, in 1848, which received from him 
a promise not to preach again as he had upon the 
subject, whereupon his character passed. The seed 
sown by him in the State Street Church soon germi- 
nated, and the fruit was shortly afterward visible, for 
when anyone spoke at the social meetings, love-feasts, 
and the prayer-meetings, giving their experience of 
full sanctification, some opponent of the doctrine would 
arise and declare, " I never had any such experience 
when God converted me. He did it well, and I have 
no need to have it done over again," and such like 
expressions, so that such criticisms became very 
annoying to those who had experienced the blessings 
of perfect love. This was another thing which greatly 
influenced such members of the State Street society as 
Alvin Williams, Gardner Howland, George Bristol, 
George Christie, Isaac and Elizabeth Hillman, and also 
others from the North Second Street Church, to under- 



128 METHODISM IN TROY. 

take the erection of the Congress Street, now Trinity 
Church, 

THE GREATEST REVIVAL IN TROY. 

During the pastorate of the Rev. James Covel, jr., 
in 1844-45, at State Street Church, there was one of 
the most extensive revivals that was ever conducted in 
Troy. The meetings were largely attended ; all the 
available standing space in the room was occupied ; 
and the Rev. John Newland Mafntt, one of the most 
eloquent preachers ever occupying that pulpit or that 
of any other church, delivered nightly many impressive 
and edifying discourses. The Rev. James Covel, jr., 
became incapacitated by sickness, and the Rev. John 
W. Lindsay, then a young man recently graduated 
from a theological seminary, was engaged to take 
charge of the society. It is estimated that between 
four and five hundred persons were converted and that 
nearly three hundred of them became members of the 
State Street Church. The writer possesses the names 
of the latter, and a record of all those persons who 
were received into full connection, the number being 
one hundred and twenty-three. The others were either 
dropped, or they changed their place of residence, or 
died. This loss was not a consequence of any incom- 
plete work of the revival. Among other causes was 
the change of pastors of the church, for it is a fact 
that a church loses more than fifty per cent, of its 
probationers, as is shown by data covering a period of 
fifteen years, ending January 1, 1874, drawn from the 
records of the Troy Conference. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 129 

Another cause for the loss, after the revival of 1845, 
lies in the fact that Mr. Maffitt did not make any effort 
to increase the higher life in the membership of the 
church. His converts were enlisted only in such work 
as secured the conversion of worldly persons, and his 
individual efforts were only directed to converting 
sinners outside of Zion. He was one of the best 
revival managers in that line I ever knew. It was with 
him that I obtained my first lessons in revival tactics. 
There were five persons, including myself, who became 
responsible for the payment of the money to be given 
for his services : Valentine Marvin, Reuben Peckham, 
Alvin Williams, Isaac Hillman, and myself. We paid 
him $100 weekly for a period of eight weeks, and $50 
weekly for a second period of four weeks, making a 
total of $1,000 for his twelve weeks' work. However, 
the returns of lectures delivered by him reduced the 
amount so much that our assessment was only twenty- 
three dollars each. 

I may be pardoned if I here present a paragraph 
from his lecture on " Woman," to show the style of this 
famous preacher's rhetoric. He said in reference to 
women : " Fairer than the virgin rose, beautiful as an 
angel of light, she came forth from the hand of the 
Divine Architect and burst with a glorious brightness 
upon the ravished vision of man." 

Not a few persons have attempted to imitate him in 
his revival work, but they have been less successful. 
We should study to improve ourselves, in order to be 
successful in revival work, and to adopt all proper 



130 METHODISM IN TROY. 

methods which will insure success, but it is not well to 
lay aside one's own individuality and to be servile 
imitators of others. It is not best to put on clothes 
which are too large or too small for us. 

In 1832, the African Methodist Church was organ- 
ized, and most of the colored- people members of the 
Methodist societies in the city joined that religious 
body. 

On the organization of the German Methodist 
Church, in i856, many German members of the other 
Methodist societies withdrew from them to unite with 
the German society. 

THE THIRD PERIOD. 

During the third period of twenty-seven years, from 
i860 to 1887, the ratio of the increase of the member- 
ship of the Troy societies greatly exceeded the ratio 
of the increase of the population of the city, the 
augmentation of membership being 99 per cent, and 
that of the population only 65 per cent., being 34 per 
cent, in favor of the church. This noticeable growth, 
I think, was caused in the main by the general return 
to and recognition of the Wesleyan doctrine of holiness 
by the church. Nearly all the preachers now teach it, 
and make it the subject of their sermons as much as 
they do justification. The population of Troy, from 
1800 to 1887, increased 5.416 per cent. The Meth- 
odist churches in the city increased 9.216 per cent., 
showing that the membership of the societies increased 
3.800 per cent, more than the population during the 
period of 87 years. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 131 

I may here briefly mention some of the changes 
made in the manner of holding camp-meetings, which 
have annually brought many converts into membership 
with the different Methodist churches in the city. For 
many years the members of the various Methodist 
societies have devotedly attended these out-door 
services. At their termination, each of the churches 
began to hold camp-meeting love-feasts or camp- 
meeting prayer-meetings, as they were called, which 
often marked the beginning of a glorious revival 
season, extending sometimes through the fall and 
winter months. 

A half century ago it was not unusual for each 
church to be represented at a camp meeting by 
as many people as would need the use of ten or 
more tents ; a family tent being twelve by fifteen 
feet in dimensions ; and a society tent, in which 
prayer-meetings were held, being still more spacious. 
Sometimes several families occupied the same tent. 
Its furniture embraced only such conveniences as 
were absolutely demanded by the occupants. The 
ridge-pole was supported by two end poles and a 
central one. A curtain hanging between the center 
and rear pole separated the sleeping places of the 
two sexes, which divisions were further secluded by 
another curtain suspended across the middle of the 
tent. A wide board was so placed between the front 
and middle pole, that by means of supporting pegs 
beneath the grooves at the ends touching the poles, it 
could serve as a table for the daily meals, or when 



132 METHODISM IN TROY. 

pushed higher, it could be used as a shelf. There was 
spread upon the floor of the sleeping sections an 
abundance of rye straw, on which bed ticks filled with 
straw, were placed together with such sheets, covers, 
and pillows, as were necessary for the comfortable 
repose, at night, of the inmates, who, on retiring, hung 
their garments across the cords on which the curtains 
were suspended. 

As most of the food had been cooked at home, the 
culinary duties demanded but little time, and com- 
monly they only included the boiling of coffee and 
brewing of tea, at the small fires built at the rear of 
the tent. Trunks, boxes, and packages, were usually 
stowed in the front division of the tent. The laws of 
the camp required that at each tent a bucket filled with 
water should always be in readiness for immediate use 
in case of accidental fires happening. A light was also 
to be kept burning in each tent during the night. The 
entire enclosure within the circle of tents around the 
preaching-stand was considered specially consecrated, 
for the time, to the service of God. 

At the sound of a horn announcing the beginning 
of public worship, all persons on the grounds not 
necessarily detained in the care of their tents, were 
required to attend it, the men and boys sitting 
apart from the women and girls. During the services 
no person was permitted to stand on the seats, or to 
walk about the ground within the circle of tents. 
All public services ceased at ten o'clock at night, and 
the people remaining on the grounds were then to 



METHODISM IN TROY. 133 

retire to their tents. The first services of the day 
began about six o'clock, a morning prayer-meeting 
being held, either at the stand or in one or more 
of the church tents. At nine o'clock there was a 
love -feast, and at ten preaching, and then a short 
prayer - meeting. At two o'clock in the afternoon, 
another sermon was preached, after which followed a 
prayer-meeting. At night the services began at seven 
o'clock, when a third discourse was delivered. The 
services of the day then terminated with a prayer- 
meeting, usually at which there was much spiritual 
good accomplished by the earnest exhortations of the 
preachers and zealous laymen, whose earnest suppli- 
cations at the throne of grace led many sinners to seek 
salvation and to obtain peace. The ministers conduct- 
ing the camp-meetings were among the best of those 
having charges in Troy and in the neighboring 
places. 

The first camp -meeting held in the present 
bounds of the Troy Conference, was the memorable 
one at Stillwater, in June, 1805. It continued four 
days. The only Methodist bishops then in America, 
the Rev. Francis Asbury and the Rev. Richard 
Whatcoat, took part in conducting its services. The 
presence and preaching of many Methodist ministers 
from Canada, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, 
New York, New Jersey, and other parts of the 
country, gave it an importance among the people of 
the Upper Hudson valley, which made it famous for 
many years thereafter. At its close the conference at 



134 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Ashgrove began its sessions. Since that time 
hundreds of camp-meetings have been held at 
different places now embraced in the districts of the 
Troy Conference. In the vicinity of Troy, those held 
in the towns of Watervliet, Clifton Park, Hoosick, 
Schaghticoke, Petersburgh, Grafton, Poestenkill, Bruns- 
wick, Sandlake, and elsewhere, were largely attended 
by the members of the Methodist churches in the 
city. In 1850, and for a number of years there- 
after, union camp-meetings of the churches in the 
Albany, Troy, and Saratoga districts, were held in 
Fitzgerald's Woods, on the line of the Rensselaer and 
Saratoga Railroad, two miles south of Mechanicville. 
At one of the camp-meetings held there, the plan 
of having boarding-tents on the grounds to accom- 
modate the people attending the meeting, was first 
adopted. In 1854, when no little alarm was caused by 
the prevalence of cholera in Troy, Albany, and other 
places, many persons considered the holding of a 
camp-meeting that summer not only unadvisable but 
dangerous to those who should congregate in the 
woods. The writer's father, Isaac Hillman, earnestly 
advocated the spiritual as well as the physical benefits 
of such a meeting. One was held, which was well 
attended, and without any evidence of illness among 
the people collected on the grounds. 

The manner of holding camp-meetings, as followed 
by the early Methodists in this part of the country, 
in time became objectionable to many of the best 
members of the city churches and plans began to 



METHODISM IN TROY. 135 

be discussed respecting the feasibility of conducting 
them in more acceptable ways. 

Shortly after the camp-meeting held at Sandlake, 
in August, 1867, the first steps were taken to purchase 
land for a permanent site for a camp-meeting easily 
accessible to the people of Troy and the neighboring 
cities and villages, as well as those of the surrounding 
country. A visit made by the writer to Martha's Vin- 
yard, in the summer of 1867, so deeply impressed him 
with the attractive features and noticeable conven- 
iences of the camp-meeting grounds there, that he, on 
his return to Troy, undertook to interest a number of 
the prominent laymen of the Methodist churches in the 
city, in forming an association to purchase an eligible 
site for a camp-meeting, and to provide suitable accom- 
modations, for the people attending the religious serv- 
ices held there. Fortunately his efforts were crowned 
with success, and the enterprise inaugurated by the 
passage of an act by the Legislature of the State of 
New York, constituting him and his associates the first 
trustees of the Round Lake Camp-meeting Associa- 
tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Troy 
Conference. On May 4, 1868, Joseph Hillman was 
elected president of the association, Charles W. 
Pierce, vice-president, Edgar O. Howland, secretary, 
and George Bristol, treasurer. About forty acres of 
land, lying on the west side of Round Lake, in Sara- 
toga County, nineteen miles north of Troy, were 
purchased by the association. The spacious wood 
that bordered the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad 



136 METHODISM IN TROY. 

was soon made sufficiently inviting, with different con- 
veniences and improvements, to hold the first camp- 
meeting there, beginning on Tuesday, September 1, 
1868, and continuing ten days. On Sunday, Sep- 
tember 6, about eight thousand people were on the 
grounds. During the meeting more than fifty ministers 
were present, and at which thirty discourses were 
delivered. The success of this enterprise, and the 
subsequent meetings held on the Round Lake Camp- 
meeting grounds, are elsewhere adverted to in this 
work. 

THE TROY PRAYING BAND. 

Two years prior to the beginning of the period now 
under consideration, the Troy Praying Band was 
organized by a number of men of acknowledged piety, 
who were held in high esteem in the several churches 
of which they were active members, and most of whom 
individually enjoyed the blessing of holiness. They 
were not fanatical and did not make holiness a hobby. 
Justification by faith as well as sanctification was held 
by them as a leading doctrine. Several were men of 
wealth and of large business interests, who willingly 
sacrificed their time and income for the cause of 
Christ and the church. Their connection, and that of 
the subsequent members, with the organization, was 
evidently by the direction of God, for through their 
instrumentality more than 13,000 souls were led to 
follow Christ, and more than that number were either 
sanctified or quickened into new life in our church. At 
least 5,000 more persons, converted by their efforts, 




TROY PRAYING BAND, 1859. 

(PLATE I.) 

I.Joseph Hillman, Leader; 2. George Bristol, Secretary; 3. Thomas 
Barker, 4. Jacob Travis, 5. Lyman Bennett, 6. Gardner Howland, President 
7. Alexander McPherson, 8. Rev. H. C. Farrar, 9. Rev. George A. Hall, 
10. Rev. G. H. Gregory, 11. William Harris. — (See Plate 2.) 




TROY PRAYING BAND, 1859. 

(PLATE 2.) 

i. John C. Bates, 2. John Usher sr., 3. G. W. Merchant (Trov), 4. R. 
Quackenbush, 5. G. W. Merchant (Albany), 6. Bloomfield Usher, 7. Robert 
Coburn, 8. John Usher, jr., 9. Thomas Carlin, 10. W. L. Smith, 11. Rev. P. 
R. Hawxhurst, 12. Rev. E. S. Osbon.— (See Plate 1.) 



METHODISM IN TROY. 139 

have joined other Christian denominations, making a 
grand total of 30,000 which have thus been converted, 
sanctified, or spiritually quickened. To God be all the 
glory ! 

The following were among the oldest members of 
the Troy Praying Band : Joseph Hillman, Gardner 
Howland, George Bristol, John C. Bates, and Alex- 
ander McPherson, of Congress Street Church ; A. D. 
Wilcox, and George F. Moore, of State Street Church; 
Lyman Bennett, and E. D. Waldron, of North Second 
Street ; Sylvester Cooper, of North Troy Church ; R. 
Quackenbush, of Third Street Church ; Thomas Carlin, 
and William Harris, of Levings Chapel ; Thomas 
Barker, of Ohio Street Church, West Troy ; H. C. 
Farrar, George A. Hall, P. R. Hawxhurst, E. S. Osbon, 
J. W. Heath, and G. H. Gregory, of the Troy Uni- 
versity ; Robert Coburn, James H. Earl, and E. B. Van 
Cott, of Albany ; Lavaldin Hull, Hazen W. Bennett, 
and Sanford Smith, of Fort Edward ; John Usher, jr., 
and D. C. Holman, of Glen's Falls ; Jacob Travis, of 
Cohoes ; A. Viele, of Saratoga Springs ; M. Alverson 
Senter, of Troy ; E. O. Howland, and Bloomfield 
Usher, of Mechanicville. 

The band has conducted revival meetings in all the 
Methodist churches in Troy. Since the year 1859, 
forty works of grace, in the city, have been marked by 
the presence and prayers of the band. Of the 
meeting held in the State Street Church on February 
22, 1869, the Troy Daily Times thus spoke: "This 
band [the Troy Praying Band] of Christian brothers 



140 METHODISM IN TROY. 

and earnest workers in the cause of religion con- 
ducted the services at the State Street Methodist 
Church last evening, in the presence of a full and 
deeply impressed congregation. Mr. Hillman led 
the services * * * and made one of the most 
impressive, really we ought to say, wonderful exhor- 
tations we ever heard at a religious revival. It 
was eloquent, stirring, emotional, and seemed to 
place every one present in the audience under a 
strong conviction of sinfulness and of the need 
of repentance. About thirty persons went forward in 
response to Mr. Hillman's earnest invitation." 

In the month of February, 1874, the members 
of the band took part in conducting a revival at 
the North Second Street Church, where there 
was a great awakening of sinners and a blessed 
work of grace. Of the meeting on the evening 
of February 8, the Troy Daily Times said : " Last 
evening as early as 7 o'clock the church was 
filled to crowding with hundreds standing in the 
galleries and in the aisles down stairs. The altar 
was crowded with penitents. Over thirty went 
forward for prayer. The singing of the band was 
magnificent, and the meeting was one of the 
most fervent and interesting that was ever held in 
Troy. * * * There is a magnetic influence in the 
zealous and impassioned working of the Praying Band 
that is powerful for good. Seldom has such wonderful 
feeling been manifested in a church in this city as that 
at the North Second Street Church, last evening." 



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Revival meetings were held at the State Street 
Methodist Church in the early part of March, 1888. 
At the close of the meetings the Troy Daily Tunes made 
the following mention of the work of the band : " The 
Troy Praying Band, Joseph Hillman leader, concluded 
a successful series of meetings at the State Street 
Methodist Church, last evening [Sunday, March 11]. 
The meetings were held for two weeks, and more 
than one hundred persons were converted. The 
meetings were largely attended, and great interest was 
awakened." 

During the past twenty-nine years the band has 
assisted in conducting two revivals at the State 
Street Church, two at the North Second Street 
Church, thirteen at the Congress Street (Trinity) 
Church, seven at the Vail Avenue Church, five at 
Levings Chapel, six at the Third Street Church, and 
five at the Albia ( Pawling Avenue ) Church. These 
churches were remarkably blessed at those times 
with great outpourings of the Holy Spirit, and many 
persons became members of them after their conver- 
sion at the meetings conducted by the members of the 
band. The earnest prayers and impressive singing of 
the band drew to the meetings large crowds of eager 
and attentive people, and at none of them were 
evidences of disorderly conduct and wildness seen 
or known to destroy or lessen the serious feeling per- 
vading the audiences. It is true that sometimes 
opposition has been felt by the band, but knowing 
that little good is ever done without it, the members 



144 METHODISM IN TROY. 

of the band gave no thought to the antagonism, which 
was temporary, and injudiciously displayed. 

One of the bishops of the church said " that there 
was never any good thing which had not opposers." 
A kite must be blown against to ascend to any height, 
and also have a tail of some weight to keep it steady 
and upright. 

The Troy Praying Band was ostensibly organized to 
help the ministry ; all its members have been loyal to 
the pastors of our churches, for they have believed in 
an efficient ministry. The laity had for years been 
throwing off their individual responsibility upon the 
preachers, and they, being willing, attempted to draw 
the burdens imposed upon them. However, they 
soon found the loads too heavy, and from physical 
weakness they were compelled to release themselves 
from them. For proof of this, look at the list of our 
superannuated and supernumerary ministers on the 
conference records. The work of the band has been, 
and still is, to rally the laity to the help of the min- 
isters, and God has wonderfully blessed the efforts 
of its members. 

In order to show what has further been accomplished 
by the band it will be necessary to allude briefly to 
its labors outside the city, for the work of the organi- 
zation has had a reflex influence on Troy. 

ROUND LAKE CAMP-MEETING ASSOCIATION. 

The leader and seven members of the Troy Praying 
Band were instrumental in forming the Round Lake 
Camp-meeting Association, and were named among the 



METHODISM IN TROY. 147 

first corporators of it. The leader generously advanced 
the money to inaugurate the enterprise. The largest 
and most important camp-meetings ever held in the 
United States were conducted at Round Lake. The 
leader of the band, Joseph Hillman, then president of 
the Round Lake Camp-meeting Association, and its 
treasurer, George Bristol, by order of the Board of 
Trustees of the association, visited Manheim, Pa., 
where the National Holiness Camp-meeting Associa- 
tion was conducting its annual meeting, under the 
superintendence of the Rev. John S. Inskip, the presi- 
dent of the association, and there made arrangements 
for the association to hold its next meeting at Round 
Lake, in the month of July, 1869. The National Holi- 
ness Camp-meeting at Round Lake that year, was the 
largest ever held there. On one day more than 
thirteen hundred teams were admitted. The price of 
admission for each team was twenty -five cents. It 
was carefully estimated that 20,000 persons were 
present on the grounds on that Sunday. There were 
five preaching places where services were conducted 
at the same time. This meeting greatly benefited 
Methodism in Troy. A large number of Methodist 
people from the city had tents (5n the ground. 
Although there was considerable disapprobation mani- 
fested toward the doctrine of holiness, as it was taught 
by the National Association, yet it was wholly Wes- 
leyan and accorded with that set forth by the church, 
and therefore could not be gainsaid. This clear 
enunciation of the old doctrine was hailed with delight 



148 METHODISM IN TROY. 

by those who had always been sound in the faith of 
the fathers of the church, while those who had ignored 
it either accepted it or withdrew from the church, so 
that the Troy ministry and laity are to-day of one 
belief regarding the doctrine, and whether they enjoy 
the blessing of sanctification or not, they are still 
sound in the faith. 

The writer has always opposed the holding of special 
meetings for holiness, believing that all the religious 
meetings of the church are for justification and sancti- 
fication. Respecting the benefits of holiness meetings 
at Round Lake, I think the National Association 
accomplished great good by bringing the church back 
to the old grounds of belief from which it had been 
drifting. 

GREAT FRATERNAL CAMP- MEETING. 

The great Fraternal Camp-meeting held at Round 
Lake in 1874, was projected in the mind of the writer 
while holding a conversation with the Rev. T. M. 
Eddy, D. D., at the Union Depot, in Troy. The 
conception and success of this notable meeting is thus 
described in the " History of Round Lake," by A. J» 
Weise, of Troy : 

"The leaven of its wonderful influence permeated 
the great body of the Methodist Church in the United 
States and widely quickened the growth of good will 
among the ministers and laity of its different branches. 
It noticeably brought into closer relations the interests 
of the two divisions of the church, North and South, 
that had so long been separated by political differences 



METHODISM IN TROY, 149 

respecting slavery and the bitter feeling caused by the 
Civil War. 

" Fortunately, in the spring of 1874, the project of 
holding a fraternal camp-meeting at Round Lake, to 
which the bishops, ministers, and laymen of the 
different branches of the church should be invited, 
occurred to the liberal-minded and indefatigable 
president of the association, Joseph Hillman. He 
disclosed his conception of the benefits of the meeting 
to the Rev. Bishop Simpson in Philadelphia, who, 
besides approving the project, advised him to consult 
with the Rev. Bishop Janes, residing in New York 
City, who had been elected to his bishopric by the 
votes of the representatives from the Southern States. 
Bishop Janes at once expressed his willingness to 
co-operate with the officers of the association in 
securing the desired attendance of those to be invited 
to the proposed meeting. He thereupon wrote the 
invitation, signed by the presiding elders of the Troy 
Conference, setting forth the high purpose of the 
meeting, and the letter of acceptance to which so many 
of the bishops willingly subscribed their names, and 
also the paper bearing the signatures of the large 
number of representative men of the church who 
signified their intention of being present. Taking with 
him the invitation of the presiding elders of the Troy 
Conference, the two other papers, and a letter of intro- 
duction written by the Rev. Bishop Janes, the earnest 
president of the Round Lake Camp-meeting Associ- 
ation, visited Louisville, Ky., where, in May, 1874, the 



150 METHODISM IN TROY. 

General Conference of the Methodist Church South 
was in session. The incidents of the different inter- 
views which he held with the officers of the conference 
and other representatives of the church, and their 
interrogations, made his mission one of extreme 
delicacy and prudent action. The success of his efforts 
besides being agreeably disclosed in the published 
acceptances of the invitations given them, was later 
more gratifyingly expressed in the presence of the 
large body of bishops, eminent ministers, and prom- 
inent laymen of the Methodist Church South at the 
Fraternal meeting, the purpose of which, as Bishop 
Janes wrote, was, ' not to talk about fraternity, but to 
enjoy it ; not to plan for it, but to practice it.' 

" The accommodations for the comfort and enter- 
tainment of the people attending the meeting, which 
began on July 8th, and continued fourteen days, were 
in every way sufficient and satisfactory. Eight or ten 
churches had tabernacles in which to lodge many of 
their members. The public boarding tents were 
enlarged to seat at the tables more than five hundred 
persons at one time. Wreaths of evergreen were 
festooned around the preacher's stand, and along the 
back part of it a long piece of canvas displayed the 
inscription, ' Behold how good and how pleasant it is 
for brethren to dwell together in unity.' Across some 
of the avenues scriptural texts were suspended. The 
most remarked of these was the one, ' I will say to the 
North, Give up ; and to the South, Keep not back.' 

" Representatives of ten branches of the Methodist 



METHODISM IN TROY. 151 

Church in North America were present at this mem- 
orable meeting. Bishops Janes, Simpson, Foster, 
Haven, and Peck, of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; 
Bishops Kavanaugh and Doggett, of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South ; Bishop Campbell, of the 
African Methodist Episcopal Church ; and Bishops 
Jones and Clinton, of the African Methodist Episcopal 
Zion Church, all took prominent parts in the varied 
and impressive services. During the fourteen days of 
the meeting, (some of them rainy,) more than fifty 
sermons were preached by ministers from different 
parts of the United States and Canada. 

" On Wednesday evening, July 8, the Rev. Bishop 
Janes, D. D., LL.D., who had charge of the meeting, 
preached the first sermon, the subject being ' The 
Adaptedness of Christianity to Man's Spiritual Neces- 
sities,' and the text, i Cor. i., 30. 

"The hymns 'Christian Greeting,' by Mrs. Joseph 
Hillman; 'The Day of Days,' by the Rev. F. Bottome, 
D. D.; 'Devotion,' by Eleazer A. Peck; and 'Christian 
Unity,' by the Rev. A. C. Rose, written for the 
occasion, were sung at the Thursday morning services. 

" On the following Sunday it rained. Seventeen 
sermons were preached that day at different places on 
the grounds, 

" By invitation, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the 
United States of America, visited Round Lake on 
Wednesday, July 15th. He arrived on the morning 
train from Saratoga Springs, between nine and ten 
o'clock, and was taken to the Bishop's cottage. 



152 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Shortly afterward he was escorted to the preacher's 
stand, where he was introduced to the people congre- 
gated there by the Rev. Bishop Janes, and was received 
with prolonged hand-clapping. Seated on the stand, 
the President heard the sermon preached by the Rev. 
George Douglass, D. D., LL. D., of Montreal, Canada, 
on the Power and Assurance of the Gospel. After 
dinino- at one of the boarding tents and holdine a short 
reception in front of the preacher's stand, the President 
departed on a special train for Saratoga Springs. 

" The services were well attended. Often the 
number of ministers present exceeded a hundred, and 
of the laity five thousand. 

"On Wednesday morning, July 2 2d, this First Fra- 
ternal Camp-meeting at Round Lake terminated with 
a love- feast. 

"The good- will which this meeting established 
between the two great bodies of the Methodist Church, 
North and South, led to the appointment of a commis- 
sion by their respective conferences to harmonize 
their interests. The commissioners met at Cape May, 
N. J., and amicably determined the adjustment of the 
long-existing differences. Bishop Pierce, in a letter to 
the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South, wrote with marked emphasis that the 
Fraternal (J|amp-meeting at Round Lake was the chief 
factor in settling them, 

SECOND FRATERNAL MEETING, 

" At the close of the First Fraternal Camp-meeting, 
in July, 1874. the presiding elders of the Troy Con- 



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[53 



ference and the trustees of the Round Lake Camp- 
meeting Association were requested by the bishops 
and many of the ministers and laymen attending the 
services to appoint a similar meeting to be held in 
July, 1875. The desire of the signers of the request 
was at once complied with and a general invitation 
extended to ' the great family of Methodists ' in North 
America to a second fraternal gathering on the 
grounds at the designated time 

" The presence of nine bishops and the frequent 
attendance of thousands of people made the Second 
Fraternal Camp-meeting nearly equal to the first one 
in distinction. The first of the series of excellent 
sermons was preached on Thursday evening, July 1st, 
1875, by the Rev. Joseph E. King, D. D., of Fort 
Edward. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. 
Bishop E. S. Janes, D. D., of New York City. During 
its continuance, about thirty-five discourses were 
delivered by ministers representing different branches 
of the Methodist Church in the United States and 
Canadao" 

THE THIRD FRATERNAL MEETING. 

The Third Fraternal Camp-meeting was held on the 
grounds in 1876. The services were under the direc- 
tion of the Rev. Bishop E. S.Janes, D. D. Twenty- 
eight discourses were delivered by the different 
ministers attending it. Bishops Janes, Peck, Simpson, 
Foster, and Way man, and other eminent clergymen of 
the church from various parts of the country officiated 
in the interesting serviceSo 



154 METHODISM IN TROY. 

During this last period marking the growth of 
Methodism in Troy, the enemy of souls and of the 
church tried hard to repress it, by assigning the failure 
of the Troy University, in 1862, to the weakness of 
the Methodist Church. Although it was projected in 
the interests of the Methodist Church, the great heart 
of the society never touched it. It is true that 
two-thirds of the members of the Board of Trustees, 
controlling its affairs, were Methodists, but one-half of 
them were only nominally trustees and seldom, if ever, 
attended the meetings of the board. The most active 
members of the board were certainly those who were 
of other denominations, or not members of any 
Christian society. There was not anything in the 
charter of the university to make it a Methodist insti- 
tution. The Troy University was organized by the 
friends of the Charlottesville Academy, in Schoharie 
County, which was attended by more than one 
thousand students. The Troy University was designed 
to be a popular institution for girls as well as boys, and 
the charges for tuition were to be moderate and attrac- 
tive. But after the school was inaugurated and the 
proposal was made to have it conducted under the 
auspices of the Methodist Church, and at moderate 
tuition rates, the prominent Methodists identified with 
the university, such as the Rev. John McClintock, D.D., 
and the Rev. R. S. Foster, D. D., and other eminent 
preachers and scholars of our church, expressed the 
opinion that there was no need of a cheap institution 
but that there was need of a first-class college. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 155 

It is sufficient to say that when faith with the scholar- 
ship holders, for it was organized on the scholarship 
plan, was broken, the subscribers refused to pay their 
subscriptions and thereby caused many law-suits to be 
instituted. At this time of adversity, the university 
property was sold on October 25, 1862, under the 
foreclosure of a mortgage. The writer and his partner, 
E. A. Peck, doing an insurance and real-estate business 
in Troy, under the name of Peck & Hillman, bid it in 
by the solicitation of the Rev. R. S. Foster, D. D., 
who attended the sale, and was confident that Daniel 
Drew, of New York City, could be induced to buy the 
property. The latter, after many urgent solicitations, 
declined to purchase it, and the firm of Peck & Hill- 
man, having unprofitably held the property for six 
weeks with the expectation that he, or some of the 
friends of the institution would extinguish its indebt- 
edness, sold the university and its grounds, on 
December 6, that year, to the Rev. Peter Havermans, 
of St. Mary's Church, of Troy, for $60,000. No little 
effort was afterward made by a few interested persons, 
desiring to escape censure for their own indifference in 
the matter, to impute mercenary motives to the firm of 
Peck & Hillman, in buying and selling the property. 
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, an attempt was 
made to defame the firm through individual statements, 
which were wholly untrue. The action of Peck & 
Hillman was then made a matter of consideration. 
Contrary to expectation, one of the persons present 
asserted that Joseph Hillman had unselfishly exerted 



156 METHODISM IN TROY. 

himself to save the property from passing into the 
possession of the Roman Catholic Church, and that 
the firm had subscribed $1,000 to purchase, and had 
also promised by others $8,000 more, to retain the 
institution in the hands of the trustees. Another 
trustee stated that Joseph Hillman, while his firm held 
the title, had several times gone to New York with 
other influential men to persuade Daniel Drew to 
purchase the property. Another further remarked 
that the trustees, instead of trying to find evidence 
of bad faith on the part of others, that it was more 
their duty to explain to the public the motives which 
governed them in permitting the property to pass from 
their own possession, when several members of the 
board were wealthy men and were individually able to 
hold it. Inasmuch as the circumstances attending the 
sale of the property are fully detailed in the statements 
published by the trustees and others, in April, 1863, 
and as the statements are hereafter printed in this 
history, it seems that the reader will be satisfied with 
the explanations already given to show the interests 
of the Methodist Church in the Troy University, and 
the causes effecting its failure. It may be worthy of 
mention to say that the discontinuance of the school 
did not injuriously effect Methodism in Troy, from the 
fact that it was never recognized fully as a Methodist 
institution. Several of the students graduated were 
members of the Troy Praying Band. The writer, who 
was then the leader of the band, had all the graduates 
of the university graduated at the Wesleyan Univer- 




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METHODISM IN TROY. 159 

sity at his own expense, so the Troy University 
diplomas of graduation were thereby cancelled. 

" THE REVIVALIST." 

In 1866, the year celebrated by the Methodists 
throughout the United States as the Centenary of 
American Methodism, the writer projected the publi- 
cation of the popular hymn and tune book, " The 
Revivalist." He proposed to expend one thousand 
dollars in the preparation and publication of the work. 
It was undertaken and completed. The rapid sale of 
the highly-commended book compelled the printing of 
successive editions, which numbered in all about 
150,000 copies. The large amount of money arising 
from this unexpected popularity of " The Revivalist," 
not only paid the cost of its compilation and publi- 
cation, but, as proposed by the writer when he under- 
took its preparation, that the accruing profits should be 
made a centenary offering to be used for such denom- 
inational work as the building of new churches and the 
promotion of Methodist educational interests, afforded 
a sum sufficient to build a church and to repair many 
other churches. The wonderful success attending 
the sale of this Troy publication permits here this 
brief mention respecting it. The opinions of the press 
and the commendations given it by the most eminent 
ministers and revivalists of the Methodist Church in 
the United States have made it extensively known 
and used throughout the country. 

THE WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the 



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Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the 
Tremont Street Church, Boston, on March 30, 1869. 
The published record of the society's work during the 
first year of its organization was presented on less than 
two pages of the Heathen Woman s Friend, the organ 
of the society. In the nineteen years of its growth, 
the work of the society has greatly widened, as well 
as that of its auxiliaries, and now an annual report of 
it covers more than one hundred pages of an octavo 
pamphlet. In 1869, the receipts of the society were 
$4,546. In 1887, more than one hundred and ninety 
thousand dollars were placed in the society's treasury. 
Since the organization of the society not less than one 
and a half million dollars have been disbursed by it. 
Since that time one hundred and twenty-two mission- 
aries have been sent into different foreign fields by the 
society. In November, 1869, the mother of the 
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the wife of the 
well-known missionary, the Rev. William Butler, 
D. D., visited Troy and places in its vicinity, and was 
instrumental in the organization of a Union Society, 
auxiliary to the New York branch, composed of mem- 
bers of the different Methodist churches in Troy. 
The first meeting of the society was held in the State 
Street Church. Mrs. Lavia G. Griffin, the wife of the 
Rev. William Griffin, D. D., was elected its president, 
and efficiently served in that office for a number of 
years. At the adjourned session of the first annual 
meeting, held in the North Second Street (now Fifth 
Avenue) Methodist Church, the society determined 




ORDELIA. M. HILLMAN. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 163 

that its offerings should be devoted to the support of 
Miss Elizabeth M. Pultz, who had previously been sent 
to India by the New York branch. In commem- 
oration of this particular consecration of its funds, the 
young society with joyful voice sang the long meter 
doxology, " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." 
In 1872, the General Conference gave the society a 
prominent place among the accredited institutions of 
the church. In 1873, the Troy Conference also gave 
it recognition as an institution of the church. 

The State Street Auxiliary of the Woman's Foreign 
Missionary Society was organized on March 18, 1881. 
Subsequently auxiliaries were formed in all the other 
Methodist churches in the city, except in the Third 
Street Church. The State Street Auxiliary united 
with that of the North Second Street Church in 
supporting Miss Minnie Hampton, a missionary in 
Japan. Not only in maintaining missionaries has the 
society taken a prominent part, but also in supporting 
Bible readers and orphan girls. The different auxil- 
iaries in Troy have placed in the society's treasury 
about $7,5oo. On June 20, 1872, Mrs. Ordelia M. 
Hillman, the wife of Joseph Hillman, was appointed 
assistant corresponding secretary of the New York 
branch, and has since that time served the society with 
marked ability in that office, assisted by efficient 
district secretaries, who are at present the following : 
Mrs. C. W. Jones, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. H. C. Farrar, 
West Troy, N. Y.; Mrs. W. P. Rulison, Mechanicville, 
N. Y.; Mrs. E. A. Braman, South Glen's Falls, N. Y.; 



164 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Miss Mary F. Bigelow, Keesville, N. Y., Miss F. A. 
Atwater, Burlington, Vt.; and Mrs. Anthony Walford, 
Mooers, N. Y. 

THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY 

At the session of the Troy Conference, at Gloversville, 
in the spring of 1883, the Troy Conference Woman's 
Home Missionary Society was organized by the 
appointment of Mrs. Lucy S. Sawyer, the wife of the 
Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, as president of the society, and 
Mrs. E. W. Simpson, corresponding secretary. The 
society held its first annual meeting in August, that 
year, at Round Lake, at the time of the Troy Confer- 
ence Camp-meeting. The first auxiliary of the society, 
organized in Troy, was formed in February, 1883, 
with the following officers : Miss Myra Hudson, pres- 
ident ; Miss Jennie Pulis, corresponding secretary ; 
Mrs. F. B. Ide, recording secretary ; and Miss Alice 
Van Alstyne, treasurer. 

In 1886, the society began the erection of the 
Kent Model Home, at Greensboro, North Carolina, 
which was dedicated May 3, 1887 ; the Rev. J. E. 
Cc Sawyer delivering the dedicatory address. The 
Troy Conference Woman's Home Missionary 
Society sustains the Kent Model Home, contributes to 
the work among the Mormons and emigrants, and 
annually sends valuable supplies to needy missionaries 
in the far West and other parts of the country. On 
Mrs. Sawyer's declination of the office, Mrs. Elizabeth 
P. Squires, the wife of the Rev. O. J. Squires, of 
Lansingburgh, was elected president of the society in 




LUCY S. SAWYER. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 167 

1887; Mrs. E. W. Simpson being- re-elected corres- 
ponding secretary. The other officers of the society, 
residing in Troy, are : Mrs. W. H. Rowe, recording 
secretary ; and Mrs. C. E. Morey, treasurer. Mrs. A, 
D. Lyon is chairman of the Indian bureau. 

The present officers of the Fifth Avenue (North 
Second Street) Church Auxiliary Society are Miss 
Mary Davis, president ; Miss Jennie Pulis, corre- 
sponding secretary ; Miss Lillie Gould, recording 
secretary ; and Miss Alice Van Alstyne, treasurer. 
The work of the Woman's Home Missionary Society 
was presented to the State Street Church, on Sunday, 
July 18, 1886, by Bishop W. F. Mallalieu. Subse- 
quently the State Street Auxiliary was organized. Its 
present officers are Mrs. C. E. Morey, president ; Miss 
Anna Spicer, recording secretary ; Mrs. Joseph Berwin, 
treasurer. 

The following persons have undertaken the work of 
the society at distant points : Miss Emma L. Clark, 
of the Fifth Avenue Church, missionary in the Indian 
Territory ; and Miss Sarah Daley, of the State Street 
Church, matron of the Model Home, at Savannah, 
Georgia. 

THE LADIES AID SOCIETIES. 

The beginnings of these benevolent organizations in 
the different Methodist churches in the city disclose in 
their histories the quickening influences which awakened 
in them much of the earnest labor and Christian fellow- 
ship marking the subsequent growth and prosperity of 
the several societies. The first organized was the 



168 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Female Aid Society of the State Street Church, which 
was formed on February 19, 1833, during the pastor- 
ship of the Rev. Buel Goodsell. 

As briefly expressed in the report of the society, 
read at its twentieth anniversary, on Wednesday 
evening, January 11, 1854, the object of the members 
was to assist the poor of the State Street Church. At 
that time, the payment of twenty-five cents annually 
was required of each of its members. The business of 
the society was then conducted by two directors, two 
secretaries, a treasurer, and a board of managers 
which embraced as many members as there were 
classes in the church ; each class having a represent- 
ative in the board. It was the duty of each manager 
"to visit the class assigned her at least once a year, 
(oftener if necessary,) to obtain subscriptions and 
donations, to learn if there were any who needed 
assistance, to render immediate relief if required, and to 
present all such cases at the meetings of the society." 
The total receipts of the society, arising from the 
proceeds of fairs, festivals, concerts, and including 
money obtained for needle-work and that of donations 
and subscriptions, during the twenty years, were 
$3,322.65, and the total disbursements, $3,305.02. 

The subsequent prosperity of the society has like- 
wise been marked and sustained by the good-will and 
zeal of its members. The relief and amelioration of 
the condition of the poor of the church have continued 
to be the objects of the society's labor and love. It is 
estimated that no less than $20,000 have been obtained 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



169 



and expended in this benevolent work, by this society 
in the State Street Church. All the other Methodist 
churches in Troy display the same activity and interest 
in the aid societies organized by the women connected 
with those churches. 

The engraving of the Officers of the Methodist Aid 
societies, in Troy, presents the photographs of the 
following ladies associated in their management : 



State Street: 
Mrs. S. T. Cary, 
Mrs. E. O. House, 
Mrs. Joseph Hillman, - 

Fifth Avenue 
Mrs. J. C. Ide, 
Mrs. Charles Benedict, 
Mrs. Gertrude Van Alstyne, 
Mrs. H. Graham, - 

Trinity : 
Mrs. J. A. McPherson, 
Mrs. P. L. Dow, - 

Albia : 
Mrs. R. Rush, 
Mrs. N. A. Wheeler, * - 
Mrs. G. C. Hastings, - 

Levings : 
Mrs. M. J. Herriot, - 
Miss Jessie M. Curtis, 
Mrs. C. R. Hawley, - 



president, 
secretary, 
manager. 

president, 
secretary, 
treasurer, 
manager. 

president, 
manager. 

president, 

vice-president, 

secretary. 

president, 
secretary, 
manager. 



170 methodism in troy. 

Grace : 

Mrs. George E. Blake, - president, 

Mrs. W. Greenwood, secretary, 

Mrs. J. L. Atwell, manager. 

Third : 

Mrs. C. W. Bissell, - - president, 
Miss Jessie L. Warner, - secretary, 

Mrs. J. P. Haller, - - manager. 

Zion : 
Mrs. S. C. Birchmore, - pastor's wife. 

One cannot but be astonished as well as proud, if 
one be a Methodist, at the wonderful changes which 
have been caused by Methodism in the one hundred 
and fifty-nine years, which have passed, since the 
founders of the Holy Club, at Oxford, England, were 
derisively called Methodists. They were five in 
number, and now the name designates 5,612,238 
persons in the world, and 4,322,762 in the United 
States. In 1797, ninety years ago, there were thirteen 
Methodists in Troy ; now there are more than 28,000. 
The dream of Dr. John Loudon, in 1808, in which he 
saw a great flock of pigeons descending upon the site 
of the first meeting- house in State Street was, as it 
now seems, the foreshadowing of the innumerable 
blessings which have come down from heaven upon 
the mother church and have been largely shared by 
her eight children. In 1808, each of the other 
religious societies in the village, the Presbyterian. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 173 

Episcopal, Baptist, and Friends, had more members 
than the humble organization which, that year, was 
legally incorporated by the name of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Troy. Now only one of the 
denominations mentioned is numerically larger than 
the Methodist societies in Troy. 

Sixty years ago, an unpretentious wooden building 
was the only Methodist church in Troy, now nine 
edifices, some of them large and architecturally hand 
some ; valued at not less than $250,000, are owned by 
the nine societies. Since Troy was made a station, 
in j 8 jo, one hundred and sixty-six Methodist minis- 
ters have served the different societies from one to 
three years. The day may be in the eternal future 
when we shall have a perfect knowledge of the number 
of saints in heaven, who, as men and women, once 
gathered around the altars of these churches, and with 
united voices praised the name of Jehovah, 

"Who moves in a mysterious way, 
His wonders to perform." 

The penitent's tears, the convert's hallelujahs, the 
pilgrim's prayers, and the preacher's exhortations, will 
then, in the light proceeding from the great white 
throne have their full significance of salvation received 
and glory attained. 



i74 METHODISM IN TROY. 



Official Members of the State Street 
Church, 1821-22. 

Rev. Daniel Ostrander, Presiding Elder. 

Rev. Benjamin Griffin, Preacher in Charge, 

Rev. Henry Chase, - Local Preacher, 

William C. Urena, - Recommended to conference 

Stewards : 

Stephen Andres, Zina P. Egleston, 

John W. Mackey, Sterling Armstrong, 

Asahel Gilbert, jr. 

Trustees : 
Charles Lemon, John Wright, 

George Smith, James Russell, 

Wm. W. Whipple. 

Leaders. 

John Wright, Thomas Archibald, 

Sterling Armstrong, Eli Townsend, 

Wm. W. Whipple, Asahel Gilbert, jr., 

Ichabod Wilbur, Jacob E. Adams, 

vStephen Andres, Caleb Curtis, 

Charles Lemon, Wm. McBurney, 

A. Milliken. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 175 

Official Members of the State Street 
Church, 1830-31. 

Rev. John B. Stratton, - Preacher in Charge. 
Rev. Abiathar M. Osbon, - Colleague, 
Rev. Ebenezer Brown, - Local Elder. 
Rev. Wm. C. Urena, - 

Local Preachers: 
Stephen Munroe, Henry Shaperson. 

Exhorters: 
Thomas Archibald, Philetus Green, 

John W. White, Henry Whitehead. 

Stewards : 
Stephen Andres, Peter Bontecou, 

John G. Buswell, Wm. Tucker, 

Garnder Landon, Ebenezer G. Woolsey. 

Henry V. W. Mastin. 
Trustees : 
Dennis Belding, Daniel Marvin, jr. 

Eli Townsend, Charles Lane, 

Thomas L. Ostrom. 
Leaders : 
Nathaniel Coburn, A. J. Skilton, 

Daniel Marvin, sr., James Uline, 

Peter Bontecou, John G. Buswell, 

Wm. W. Whipple, H. V. W. Mastin, Albia, 

Daniel Marvin, jr., Caleb Knight, Albia, 

Stephen Andres, Abraham Filer, Millville, 

Wm. Tucker, Barney Wetherwax, " 

Eli Townsend, Liberty Hyde, 

Independence Starks, Valentine Marvin, 

Wm. C. Urena, Charles Lemon. 

Jacob E. Adams, Isaac W. Tallman, 

John W. White, Wm. Warrington, 

Thomas L. Ostrom, Wm. P. Hall, 

Abner Foster, John Dungy. 



176 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Official Members of the State Street 
Church, 1845. 

Rev. J. B. Stratton, - Presiding Elder, 

Rev. Luman A. Sandford, Preacher in Charge, 

Rev. Alanson W. Garvin, Colleague, 

Thomas Archibald, - - Local Preacher, 
Joseph Gatchell, - " " 

Wm. Saunders, - 

George Taylor, - " " 

J. J. Van Deusen, - - Exhorter, 

Stewards : 
Reuben Peckham, E. S. Brainard, 

Peter Bontecou, James Matthews, 

Nathan Taylor, Samuel Cotrell, 

A. J. Skilton. 

Trustees : 
John G. Buswell, Enoch Hunt, 

Valentine Marvin, Noah Clapp, 

Wm. H. Manning. 

Leaders : 

Valentine Marvin, Walter L. Kipp, 

E. A. Burrows, John G. Buswell, 

L. Van Valkenburgh, J. J. Van Deusen, 

Alvin Williams, John Archibald, 

Wm. H. Robbins, Wm. H. Manning, 

Noah Clapp, Wm. Brown, 

John Christie, James Carnell, 

L. Harrison, Alanson D. Wilcox 

S. S. Vanderlip, Gardner Landon, 

Jos. Hillman, Lyman R. Avery, 



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l 77 



Official Members of the State Street 
Church, 1867. 

(when the number of trustees was increased from five to nine). 

Rev. Wm. Griffin, - 

Rev. E. Wentworth, - 

Rev. Wm. Cluett, - 

Wm. Saunders, 

J. J. Van Deusen, - 

Daniel Marvin, 

Rev. Truman Seymour, 

Rev. Stephen Parks, 



Presiding Elder, 
Preacher in Charge, 
Local Deacon, 

Local Preacher, 

Local Elder, 



Peter Bontecou, 
Lyman R. Avery, 
Gilbert D. Golden, 
Jonas Faulkner, 



Stewards : 

Geo. B. Cluett, 
Ralph Phillips, 
Edmund Cluett, 
Stephen Heimstreet, 



P. W. Converse. 

Trustees : 
Reuben Peckham, Geo. B. Cluett, 

Lyman R. Avery, John M. Corliss, 

Geo. A. Stone, E. A. Burrows, 

Charles J. Saxe, P. W. Converse, 



S. T. Cary. 



Leaders : 



E. A. Burrows, 
J. W. A. Cluett, 
Charles J. Saxe, 
Geo. B. Cluett, 
P. W. Converse, 
Lyman R. Avery, 
S. J. Peabody, 
Manley W. Morey ; 



Stephen Mallory, 
S. T. Cary, 
C. M. Estes, 
H. H. Lee, 
Sylvanus Birch, 
C. C. Hill, 
Josiah A. Martin, 
Chester Brockway, 



78 METHODISM IN TROY. 



The Pastor. Trustees, and Stewards of the 
State Street Church, 1874. 

Rev. H. D. Kimball. 



Trustees : 
Lyman R. Avery, P. W. Converse, 

Geo. A. Stone, S. T. Cary, 

Geo. B. Cluett, Edmund Cluett, 

Reuben Peckham, J. W. A. Cluett. 

Stewards : 
Robert Cluett, S. J. Peabody, 

Jonas Faulkner, G. W. Morris, 

E. Belden, G. L. Douglass, 

M. W. Morey, Octavus Jones. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 181 



Trustees of the State Street M. E. Church 

from 1817 to 1888. 

Abner Foster,- - - 1817-19 

John Loudon, - - . 1817-20 

John Wright, - - - 1817-24 

Roger King, - - 1817-20 

William W. Whipple, - 1817-26 and 1827-28 

Charles Lemon, - - 1 819-21 and 1826-29 

James Russell, - - 1820-21 and 1827-30 

George Smith, - - 1820-22 

Dennis Belding, - - 1821-24 and 1828-31 

Arthur Milliken, - - 1821-27 

Elias Disbrow, - - 1822-27 

William Chambers, - - 1824-26 

Harvey Betts, - - 1824-28 

Sterling Armstrong - - 1825-27 

Levi Rogers, - - 1827-28 

Enos Randol, - - - 1828-30 

Eli Townsend, - - 1828-34 

Daniel Marvin, jr., - - 1829 

Charles Lane, - - 1830-33 

Thomas L. Ostrom, - - 1830 and 1833-35 

John W. Mackey, - - 1830-34 

Zina P. Egleston, - - 1831-33 and 1834-36 

Isaac W. Tallman, - 1833-35 

Jesse Anthony, - - 1834-36 

John G. Buswell, - - 1835-47 



1 82 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Gardner Landon, - 1835-45 and i85o-59 

Waters W. Whipple, - - 1836-39 

Valentine Marvin, - 1836-48 

Charles W. Thompson, - 1836-42 

Noah Clapp, - - 1839-44 and 1845-49 

John F. McLaughlin, - - 1842-45 

William H. Manning, - 1844-50 

Enoch Hunt, - - . - 1846-48 

* Lyman R. Avery, - 1S47-50 and 1867-71 

John Christie, - 1848-50 

*Joseph Hillman, - - 1848-49 and 1875-88 

John Archibald, - - 1849-52 

John M. Corliss - - 1852-71-75 

Gilbert Golden, - - 1850-59 

Isaac W. Crissey, - 1850-52 

Elizur S. Brainard, - - 1851-57 

Eliphalet R. King, - 1852-56 

Albert C. Gunnison, - - 1856-59 

Othniel W. Edson, - 1858-61 

Charles J. Saxe, - - 1859-67 

Alanson D. Wilcox, - 1859-62 

Reuben Peckham, - - 1861-79 

*George A. Stone, - 1862-76 and 1887-88 

*Perrin W. Converse, - - 1866-88 

George B. Cluett, - - 1866-75 

Edwin A. Burrows, - - 1866-68 

Sidney T. Cary, - - 1867-75 

J. W. Alfred Cluett, - - 1868-75 

Stephen Parks, - - 1868-72 

* Member of present Board of Trustees. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 183 

*Albert Crampton, - - .- - 1875-88 

Edmund Cluett, - - - 1872-78 

*George W. Horton, - - 1875-88 

E. A. Hartshorn, - - 1875-87 

*Henry Holmes, - 1875-88 

Octavus Jones, - - - - 1875-77 

*Fred. H. Cluett, - - - • 1878-88 

*Daniel Klock, jr., - - - 1879-88 



* Member of present Board of Trustees. 



184 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Official Board of theState Street Church, 

1887-88. 

Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, - Pastor in Charge, 
Rev. William Cluett, - - Local Elder, 
Emanuel H. Patliyan, - Exhorter. 

Leaders : 
E. A. Burrows, Mrs. Anna K. House, 

S. T. Cary, E. O. House, 

P. W. Converse, Charles E. Morey, 

A. C. Fellows, Emanuel H. Patliyan, 

Mrs. Joseph Hillman, J. W. F. Podmore. 

Stewards : 
James C. Archibald, Stephen Mallory, 

Emerson Belden, W. H. Mann, 

D. Frank Boutecou, C. E. Morey, 
J.Crandell, M. W. Morey, 

W. H. Hollister, T. W. P. Patterson, 

E. O. House, W. M. Peckham, 

J. W. F. Podmore. 

Trustees : 
Lyman R. Avery, Joseph Hillman, 

Fred. H. Cluett, Henry Holmes, 

P. W. Converse, George W. Horton, 

A. Crampton, Daniel Klock, jr., 

George A. Stone. 

Daniel Klock, jr., Sunday-school Superintendent. 



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Members of the State Street Church, 
1887-88. 



Adams, Mrs. Angeline 
Agan, Mrs. Annie 
Alger, Anna R. 
Allendorph, Mrs. Sarah 
Almy, George W. 
Almy, Mrs. Melintha 
Anderson, Mark A. 
Andres, Grace 
Andres, John P. 
Andres, Mrs. Mary 
Arakalian, G. A. 
Archibald, James C. 
Archibald, Mrs. Sarah M. 
Avery, Eva A. 
Avery, Frederick W. 
Avery, John M. 
Avery, Lyman R. 
Avery, Mrs. Annie S. 
Avery, Mrs. Henrietta B. 
Auliffe, William 
Ayres, Mrs. Elizabeth H. 
Bailey, Augustus 
Bailey, Charlotte 
Bailey, Julia 
Bailey, Lottie 
Barber, Mrs. Marion 
Bardin, A. G. 



Barringer, Mrs. Mattie 
Barry, Mabel E. 
Barry, Mrs. Evangeline E. 
Barthell, Frederick W. 
Barthell, Mrs. Annie E. 
Belden, Arthur 
Belden, Emerson 
Belden, Mrs. Julia A. 
Bennett, Mrs. Amanda 
Berwin, Joseph 
Berwin, Mrs. Delia 
Biggs, Mrs. Priscilla 
Birch, Julia A. 
Bishop, Mary Elizabeth 
Bishop, Mrs. Mary E. 
Blanchard, Mrs. Armina P, 
Blanchard, Viola 
Bonesteel, Jeremiah 
Bonesteel, Mrs. Louisa 
Bontecou, D. Frank 
Bowen, Clara E. 
Bowen, Mrs. Harriet M. 
Bowers, Lillian M. 
Bragg, Aurelia A. 
Brockway, Cynthia 
Brown, Stephen John 
Bull, Mrs. Julia E. 



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Bumstead, Mrs. Eleanor 
Burrows, Edwin A. 
Burtis, Emma 
Buswell, Mrs. Emmeline 
Buswell, William H. 
Butler, Etta 
Cady, Henrietta 
Calkins, Mary E. 
Calkins, Sarah 
Carpenter, Julia E. 
Carr, Carrie M. 
Carr, Laura 
Cary, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Cary, Sidney T. 
Chase, Alton 
Clark, Mrs. Melissa 
Clint, Mrs. Caroline 
Cluett, Charles F. 
Cluett, Frances C. 
Cluett, Frederick H. 
Cluett, Mary E. 
Cluett, Mrs. Fannie B. 
Cluett, William 
Cockburn, Elizabeth 
Collander, Elizabeth 
Collins, Mrs. Ann M. 
Comstock, Frederick R. 
Comstock, Mrs. Adaline 
Comstock, Royal D. 
Connolly, Kate 



Converse, Charles A. 
Converse, Mrs. Cornelia E. 
Converse, Perrin W. 
Corliss, John M. 
Cornwell, Ellen J. 
Cottrell, George W. 
Cowee, Mrs. Mary E. 
Crampton, Albert 
Crampton, Mrs Louisa A. 
Crandell, Alexander 
Crandell, Joseph 
Crandell, Mary T. 
Crandell, Mrs. Charlotte A. 
Craver, Mrs. Lucinda 
Crissey, Isaac W. 
Cummings, Mrs. Mary A. 
Cushman, Amelia 
Daboll, George W. 
Daboll, Helena Hardwick 
Daboll, Mrs. Sarah 
Daboll, Wilmott C. 
Dagdigian, Anedik 
Daniels, Alice L. 
Daniels, Mrs. Kate M. 
Daniels, Mrs. Libbie. 
Darling, H. S. 
Darrell, William F. 
Dater, Elizabeth A. 
Davis, Carrie N. 
Davis, Mrs. Jennie E. 



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189 



Davis, Marco L. 
De Freest, Mrs. Eliza C. 
De Freest, Mrs. Louisa 
De Freest, Mrs. Minnie A. 
Derrick, Henrietta M. 
Dewey, Mary E. 
Diehl, Josephine 
Disotell, Mrs. Mary 
Dorley, Sarah A. 
Doty, Julia R. 
Doty, Louisa 
Doty, Mrs. Julia M. 
Doughty, Mrs. Tillie 
Dow, Martha J. 
Dowsett, Isaiah C. 
Dowsett, Maude 
Dowsett, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Dusenberry, Mrs. Alice A. 
Dutcher, Mrs. Barbara 
Dutcher, Mrs. Phcebe A. 
Dutcher, Nelson R. 
Eichols, Emma 
Eldred, Minnie 
Eldred, Mrs. Susan M. 
El well, Mrs. Carrie. 
Fairlie, J. E. 
Faulkner, Julia A. 
Faulkner, Mrs. Mary 
Faulkner, Mrs. Mary E. 
Fechs, Mrs. Annie 



Fellows, A. Clarke 

Fellows, J. Frank 

Fellows, Mrs. Anna M. 

Felter, Edgar M. 

Felter, Mahlon 

Felter, Mrs. Edgar M. 

Ferguson, Minnie L. 

Ferrie, Mrs. Cynthia S. 

Filkins, Mrs. Sarah J. 

Finder, Mrs. Elva A. 

Finder, William 

Fish, Nellie L. 

Fisk, Bessie 

Fisk, E. J. 

Fisk, James Y. 

Fisk, Mary 

Fisk, Sarah 

Fojeian, Paul 

Foltes, Robert Henry 

Fox, Ella 

Fox, Florence M. 

Fox, Mrs. Adelia 

Freeman, Nettie 

Gillespie, Mrs. Mary 

Gleghorn, Mary 

Glendenning, Annie E. 

Goss, Mrs. E. A. 

Green, Mrs. Harriet 

Greenfield, Mrs.Catharine A 

Greenfield, John N. 



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Gregory, Lottie 
Gustafson, Aeries E. 
Gustafson, Anna T. M. 
Gustafson, Mrs. Anna C. 
Gustafson, Mrs. Mary 
Hagadorn, Mrs. Sally 
Hale, Charles B. 
Hale, Mrs. Ellen M. 
Hartshorn, Edwin A. 
Hartshorn, Edwin S. 
Hartshorn, Jessie 
Hayford, Mrs. M. L. 
Heims, George 
Heims, Mary 
Heimstreet, Mrs. Emeline 
Helmes, Frederick C. 
Helmes, Mrs. Lillie A. 
Herbage, Mrs. Libbie M. 
Herrick, Clinton B. 
Herrick, Mrs. Lillian F. 
Herrick, Sarah J. 
Hicks, Mrs. Hannah A. 
Hillman, Mrs. Ordelia M. 
Holdridge, Merton A. 
Hollister, Carrie V. 
Hollister, Maggie L. 
Hollister, Mrs. Carrie C. 
Hollister, William H. 
Holmes, Clara E. 
Holmes, Henry 



Holmes, Lizzie E, 
Holmes, Mrs. Maria M. 
Hooper, Mrs. Ellen M. 
Hooper, Otis F. 
Horton, George W. 
Horton, Harry G. 
Horton, Isabella F. 
Horton, James M. 
Horton, Mrs. Erne W. 
Horton, Mrs. Catharine E. 
Horton, William H. 
Hotchkin, Delia M. 
Hotchkin, Nettie M. 
House, Edward O. 
House, Mrs. Anna K. 
Huff, Henry 
Huff, John 
Huff, Mrs. Fannie E. 
Hulbert, Edwin H. 
Hulbert, Mrs. Kate A. 
Hulbert, Seymour 
Hunt, Enoch 
Hurst, Charles 
Hutchinson, Mrs. Mary A. 
Huth, Amanda 
Huth, Mrs. Sarah R. 
Ingalls, Harry O. 
Ingalls, Horace B. 
Ingalls, Mrs. M. E. 
Inealls, Oscar F. 



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19 1 



Irish, Mrs. Emeline 

amison, James 

ejeiam, Manorg H. 

epson, Ila M. 

ohnson, Carrie F. 

ohnson, Mrs. Elizabeth 

ohnson, Emily C. 

ombarjean, G. M. 

ones, Mrs. Angeline M. 

ones, Carrie A. 

ones, Ella H. 

ones, Harry B. 

ones, Mrs. Carrie E. 

ones, Octavous 

ordan, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Karajian, G. H. 
Keith, Harriet 
Keith, Robert 
Kellum, Mrs. Gertrude 
Kendall, Mary E. 
Kendall Newell A. 
Kendall, Mrs. Jennie E. 
Kenyon, David R. 
Kenyon, Mrs. Emily 
King, Alford Floyd 
King, Elizabeth R, 
King, Letitia E. 
King, Mary J. 
King, Matilda E. 
King, Mrs. Mary 



King, Mrs. Mary 
King, Mrs. Sarah R. 
Kittle, Mrs. Evalina 
Klock, jr., Daniel 
Knowlton, Mrs. Maria A. 
Labrum, Mrs. Judith A. 
Larkins, Alpha 
Lee, Charles A. 
Lee, Mrs. Abbie 
Lee, Mrs. Eliza 
Lee, Nathaniel 
Leet, Charles M. 
Leet, Mrs. Prudence 
Leet, Wm. E. 
Lewis, Mrs. Carrie 
Lovejoy, Mrs. J. A. 
Lub, William A. 
Mallery, Mrs. Mary J. 
Mallery, Hattie E. 
Mallery, Mary J. 
Mallory, Stephen 
Mann, Mrs. Ellen A. 
Mann, William H. 
Mannell, Anna May 
Mannell, George 
Mannell, Gussie J. 
Mannell, Mary 
Manning, Mrs. Susan P. 
Martin, Clarence L. 
Martin, JosiaK A. 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Martin, Julia A. 
Martin, Mrs. Cynthia L. 
Martin, Mrs. Elsie A. 
Matthews, James 
Matthews, Mrs. Alice 
May, Charles D. 
May, Earl H. 
May, Edwin A. 
May, Emma J. 
May, Libbie B. 
May, Mary L. 
May, Mrs. Julia A. 
McChesney, Carrie E. 
McKittrick, Mrs. Carrie 
McKittrick, W. H. 
McMasters, Mrs. Nancy J. 
McMurray, Charlotte E. 
McNider, Mary 
Mead, William E. 
Meeker, Mrs. Mary E. 
Meeker, Mrs. Ruth A. 
Meeker, Mrs. Ruth A. 
Meeker, William A. 
Merrill, Carlton H. 
Merrill, Mrs. Sarah T. 
Mesick, Henry 
Mesick, Mrs. Emeline 
Michael, Frank 
Mooney, James A. 
Moore, Ella A. 



Morand, Emeline M. 
Morand, Ida L. 
Morand, Mrs. Mary 
Morand, Ulysses G. 
Morand, William 
Morey, Charles Eo 
Morey, Clara 
Morey, George W. 
Morey, Manley W. 
Morey, Mrs. Charlotte A. 
Morey, Mrs. Susan M. 
Mosher, Martha A. 
Munro, John 
Munro, John C. 
Munro, Lizzie, 
Myers, Carrie I. 
Myers, Hattie 
Myers, Maria M. 
Myers, Mrs. Harriet E„ 
Myers, Mrs. Sarah 
Naylor, Anna 
Naylor, James 
Naylor, George W. 
Naylor, Maud 
Naylor, Mrs. Emma 
Naylor, Sarah 
Nelson, Minnie 
Nieson, Anna Mary 
Nieson, Tina 
Norton, Ethel 



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[ 93 



Norton, Mrs. Estella 
Odell, Celia 

Osborne, Mrs. Elizabeth T. 
Ostrander, Amelia R. 
Packard, Chauncey D. 
Packard, Lillie 
Paine, Mrs. Sarah G. 
Palmetier, Catharine E. 
Pasco, Francis H. 
Pasco, Mary Jane 
Pasco, Mrs. Caroline 
Pasco, Mrs. Robina 
Pasco, Sarah 
Pasco, William 
Patterson, Mrs. Hattie C. 
Patterson, Thomas W. P. 
Patton, Annie 
Peabody, Andrew 
Peabody, Helen E. 
Peabody, Mrs. Sarah A. 
Peabody, Samuel J. 
Peckham, Mrs. Mary 
Peckham, Phcebe 
Peckham, William M. 
Percey, Effie 
Percey, Lillie 
Petriam, H. 
Pettis, William 
Peyton, Jennie D. 
Phillips, Mrs. Clara 



Podmore, Annie G. 
Podmore, Eva J. 
Podmore, Mrs. S. Alice 
Podmore, James W. F. 
Pomeroy, D. W. 
Pomeroy, Mrs. Marion 
Popple, Henry A. 
Popple, Mrs. Lizzie A. 
Porter, Flora E. 
Potliyan, Emmanuel H. 
Potliyan, Jacob 
Pulsifer, Stella 
Pulver, Mrs. Lottie 
Queal, Arthur D. 
Queal, Mary 
Queal, Mrs. Alice 
Raport, Louis 
Redfield, Mrs. Mary 
Rhind, Mrs. Susan P. 
Rice, Harry L. D. 
Rice, Mrs. Carrie E. 
Richardson, Mrs. Cornelia 
Rilyea, Mrs. Hattie 
Robbins, Mrs. Phcebe M. 
Rockfellow, Lizzie 
Rockfellow, Mrs. Henrietta 
Rockfellow, Rosa 
Roga, Harry 
Roga, Joseph B. 
Roora, Mrs. Carrie 



194 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Rogers, Daisy 
Rogers, Helen M. 
Rogers, Lillian F. 
Ronalds, James 
Ronalds, Mrs. Clarissa 
Roome, Christian H. 
Rose, Jennie S. 
Rowley, Mrs. Ida 
Russell, Harriet A. 
Russell, Mrs. Harriet H. 
Rynders, Mrs. Lizzie 
Rynders, Nellie 
Sanford, Frederick A. 
Sawyer, Mrs. Alice 
Sawyer, Mrs. Lucy S. 
Saxe, James A. 
Saxe, John W. 
Saxe, Mary E. 
Saxe, Mrs. Ellen G. 
Saxe, William A. 
Schutt, Annie G. 
Schutt, Frank P. 
Schutt, Mrs. Anna M. 
Scott, Anna E. 
Searles, Mrs. Jennie 
Searles, Mrs. Olive 
Searles, William 
Seeman, Emma 
Seymour, Minnie 
Seymour, Mrs. Mary E. 



Seymour, Robert 
Shappo, Mrs. Catharine B. 
Shaw, Charles H. 
Shaw, Mary C. 
Shaw, Mrs. Jennie 
Sherwood, Cyrus , 
Shires, Mrs. Ella 
Sivers, Mrs. Lina 
Snow, Mrs. Alice P. 
Snow, Samuel O. 
Sontar, Mrs. Fannie 
Spaulding, Mrs. Clara M. 
Spencer, Mrs. Lillie A. 
Spicer, Ann Eliza 
Spicer, Sarah J. 
Staley, Mrs. Carrie T. 
Starks, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Starks, Ralph J. 
Starks, Ralph E. 
Stewart, Bessie 
Stone, Mrs. Mary A. 
Stout, Edward L. 
Stout, Mary Julia 
Stout, Mrs. Mary R. 
Stradling, Mrs. Agnes S. 
Strait, Horatio N. 
Strait, Mrs. Emma 
Strait, Mrs. Louisa 
Swenson, John 
Swenson, Mrs. Ophelia 



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195 



Takakjian, Jacob 
Tann, Sarah S. 
Tappan, Mrs. Susan M. 
Taylor, William 
Thompson, Mrs. Mary 
Titus, Mattie L. 
Tschumi, Fred. J. 
Turknett, R. G. 
Tyler, Charles H. 
Tyler, Mrs. Carrie T. 
Udall, John 
Uline, Mrs. Sarah M. 
Urann, Samuel 
Van Buren, Bradley 
Van Buren, Mrs. Amy 



Waterbury, Mrs. Rose 
Waterbury, Sherman 
Watrous, Sarah M. 
Weaver, James J. 
Westervelt, Mrs. Sarah E. 
Whipple, John B. 
Whipple, Henry 
Whipple, Mrs. Ardell Y. 
White, Charles T. 
White, George A. 
White, Palmer 
Whiteman, Albert H. 
Whyland, Madeline 
Wilson, Hattie 
Wilson, Mrs. Catharine 



Vandercook, Zilphia Z. Wilson, Mrs. Maria L.Dowdell 
Van Deusen, Mrs.Hannah Wilson, Mrs. Mary 
Van Valkenburgh, Effie Wilson, Ruth A. 
Van Valkenburgh, Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Thomas 



Vasey, Arma 
Vasey, Minnie 
Vasey, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Vasey, Nicholas 
Vaughn, Mrs. Anna J. 
Wager, Leonard 
Wager, Mrs. Eliza 
Wager, Mrs. Frances 
Wager, Paul 
Wait, Lewis H. 
Wait, Mrs. Mary J. 
Waterbury, Emerson 



Wing, Mrs. Nannie 
Wiston, Mrs. Naomi 
Woolworth, Pamelia 
Worden, Mrs. Mary 
Wyman, Jennie E. 
Wyman, John D. 
Wyman, Lottie S. 
Wyman, Mrs. Emma E. 
Young, Carrie A. 
Zeptner, Maggie 
Zeptner, Mrs. Jane 



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State Street M. E. Sunday School, 
1887-88. 

Officers. 



Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, 
Daniel Klock, jr., 
J. W. F. Podmore, - - 
William H. Mann, - 
Stephen J. Brown, - - 
Stephen Mallory, 
James Y. Fisk, - 
Fred. R. Comstock, - 
J. Frank Fellows, - - 
Mrs. S. T. Cary, - - 
Mrs. Joseph Hillman, - 
Mrs. W. C. Daboll, - 
Miss Mary E. Saxe, 
Miss Mary T. Crandell, 
Miss Mary L. May, - - 
Miss Clara E. Holmes, 



Pastor. 

Superintendent. 

Asst. Superintendent. 

Secretary. 

Asst. Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Librarian. 

1st Asst. Librarian. 

2d Asst. Librarian. 

Female Superintendent. 

Superint'd't of Primary Dept. 

Asst. Sup't of Primary Dept. 

Pianist. 

Asst. Pianist. 

Organist. 

Asst. Organist. 



Teachers. 
P. W. Converse, 
Joseph Crandell, 
A. C. Fellows, 
E. A. Hartshorn, 



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Fred. C. Helms, 
Henry Holmes, 
E. O. House, 
Chas. E. Morey, 
J. W. F. Podmore. 
Mrs. E. Belden, 
Mrs. Joseph Berwin, 
Miss Clara E. Bowen, 
Mrs. C. M. Clint, 
Miss Mary T. Crandell, 
Miss Martha Dow, 
Mrs. Mary Y. Fisk, 
Mrs. Mary K. Gillespie, 
Mrs. Wm. J. Herbage, 
Miss Maggie Hollister, 
Miss Clara E. Holmes, 
Mrs. E. O. House, 
Mrs. W. H. Mann, 
Mrs. Charles E. Morey, 
Miss Clara A. Morey, 
Mrs. Amelia R. Ostrander, 
Mrs. Anne G. Podmore, 
Miss Mary M. Queal, 
Miss Mary E. Saxe, 
Miss Madeline Whyland, 
Mrs. E. Westervelt. 



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Subscriptions for building the First Meth- 
odist Meeting-House in Troy, Jan'y 2, 1809. 

Eliphalet King, - - - - $150 oo 

Morris DeCamp, - - - - 35 00 

Asahel Gilbert, - - - - 3 5 00 

David Canfield, - - - 30 00 

Aaron Raymond, - - - 20 00 

Alex. Stewart, - - - 20 00 

Moses Piatt, - - - - 10 00 

Eli Burritt, - - - - -10 00 

John Boardman, - - - 10 00 

Andrew Proudfit, - - - 10 00 

Thos. Hillhouse, - - - 10 00 

E. Warner & Co., - - - 10 00 

Corning & Co., - - - - 10 00 

A. & D. Lamoreaux, - - 10 00 

John Sanders, - - - - 5 00 

David Scoby, - - - - 5 00 

Samuel Whatleu, - - - 5 00 

Phebe Curtis, - - - - 5 00 

Elisha Fanning, - - - 5 00 

Thos. Davis, - - - - 5 00 

Albert Pawling, - - - 5 00 

Mr. Fauncher, - - - 5 00 

Ephraim Morgan, - - - 5 00 

Levi Rumsey, - - - - 5 00 

Russell, Tracy, & Co., - - 5 00 



METHODISM IN TROY. 199 

Stanley Thompson, - - - - 5 oo 

Elias F. - 5 °° 

Nathaniel Chapman, - - - 5 °° 

U. Miller, - - - 5 00 

Thomas Sumer, - - - - 5 00 

Hazzard, - - - - 5 00 

Hugh Peebles, - - - - 4 00 

Nehemiah Tomkins, - - - 3 5o 

Isaac Fowler, jr., - - - - 3 00 

Henry Vail, - - 3 00 

Richard Keeling, - - - - 3 00 

Wm. Bogardus, - - - - 3 00 

Theodore Barnard, - - - - 3 00 

Ephraim Whitaker, - - - 3 00 

William McManus, - - - - 3 00 

James Sheldon, - - - - 3 00 

Benjamin Higbie, - - - 3 00 

J. Watts, - - - - 2 50 

Andrew Hemphill, - - - 2 00 

Jasper M. Vandenburgh, - - 2 00 

Samuel Swasey, - - - .2 00 

Thomas Read, - - - - 2 00 

Archibald Weaver, - - - 2 00 

Edward S. Stewart, - - - 2 00 

Felix Lester, - - 2 00 

Piatt Titus, - - - - 2 00 

I. M. Wells, - 2 00 

Elisha Sheldon, - - - 2 00 

James Adams, - - - 2 00 

H. Keeling, . - - - - 2 00 



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Joseph Hues, - - - - 2 00 

Charles Richards, - - - 2 00 

John Smith, - - - - 2 00 

Elias Lasell, - - - - 2 00 

Alexander Rousseau, - - - 2 00 

Rogers & Rockwell, - - - 2 00 

W. Putnam, - - - - 2 00 

Isaac Ayers, - - - - 2 75 

William Bell, jr., - - - 2 00 

M. Wack, - - - - 2 00 

Henry Drew, - - - - 1 50 

Robert Christie, - - - 1 50 

J. Weld, - - - - 1 50 

John Howard, - - - 1 00 

Reuben H. Walworth, - - - 1 00 

Jesse Cro, - - - - 1 00 

William Squire, - - - 1 00 

Luke H. Thrall, - - - 1 00 

John Whitaker, - - - - 1 00 

Simon Smith, - - - 1 00 

Reuben Purdy, - - - - 1 00 

David Sherman, - - - 1 00 

W. Earl, - - - - 1 00 

Samuel West, - - - 1 00 

William Kelly, - - - - 1 00 

Levinus Vandenbergh - - 1 00 

Abijah Fowler,- - - - 1 00 

P. Huntington, - - - 1 00 

Elias Howard, - - - - 1 00 

Cornelius Buckman, - - 1 00 



METHODISM IN TROY. 201 

Willard Warner, - - - i oo 

George Smith, - - i oo 

Lewis Munn, - - - - i oo 

J. Moulton, - 1 00 

E. Ranney, - - i oo 

Thos. Porter, - i oo 

William Rockwell,* - - - i oo 

Thaddeus Mead, - - - - i oo 

Hugh Gragg, - • - - o 87 

The subscriptions of Roger King, Charles Lemon, 
and other contributors was upon another paper 
afterward lost. 



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Subscriptions for the St ate St. Stone Church 
and Chapel as they were January, 1888. 

(Less amounts than $100 subscribed are not embraced in the list.) 

Reuben Peckham, - $13,100 

Charles J. Saxe, and wife, - - 1 1,950 

George B. Cluett, - - - - 6,250 

J. W. A. Cluett, - - - 6,25o 

Lyman R. Avery, - 5,900 

Perrin W. Converse, - 5, 600 

George A. Stone, - 4>35o 

Ladies' Aid Society, - - - 4 J 77 

William Cluett, - • - - 4,000 

Joseph Hillman, ... 3,950 

John M. Corliss, - - - 3,900 

Ralph J. Starks, - - - 3,250 

Lorenzo C. Fisk, - 2,725 

Fred. H. Cluett, - - - 2,425 

Daniel Klock, jr., - 2,300 

Samuel J. Peabody, - - - 2,300 

Mrs. W. H. Manning, - - - 2,010 

Rev. Stephen Parks and wife, - - 1,600 

Octavous Jones, - - - 1,600 

Manley W. Morey, - - - 1,525 

Edwin A. Burrows, - - - i,5oo 

David Cowee and wife, - - - i,5oo 

Sidney T. Cary,- - - - 1,380 

Edwin A. Hartshorn, - - - 1,350 



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Edmund Cluett, - i>300 

George W. Horton, - - - 1*300 

Albert Crampton, - - - - 1,275 

Emerson Belden, - - - 1*275 

Henry Holmes, - 1,100 

Robert Cluett, - - - - 1,100 

Charles B. Bishop, - 1,000 

John W. Mackey, - 1 ,000 

Edward O. House, - - - 950 

Chauncey D. Packard, - - - 850 

Mrs. Angeline M. Jones, - 700 

Samuel A. House, - - - 650 

Stephen Mallory, - - - - 625 

Young People's Association, - - 609 

Elisha Mors, - 600 

Adam C. Fellows, - - - 575 

Mrs. E. S. Strait, - - - - 510 

George Bristol, - - - - 500 

Sunday School, - 5oo 

Nathaniel Lee, - 500 

Sylvanus Birch, - - - - 5oo 

S. C. Hulbert, - 470 

E. H. May, 450 

J. W. F. Podmore, - 400 

Myron King, - 400 

W. H. Hollister, - 35o 

R. S. Norton, - 333 

R. Quackenbush, - - - 310 

C. C. Hill, ----- 300 

Joseph Crandell, - - 300 



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J. C. Archibald, - . - 300 

D. F. Bontecou, - - - 295 

J. N. Greenfield, - 275 

T. W. P. Patterson, ... 260 

M. R. Taylor - - - - 250 

Anna E. Spicer, - - - 250 

Sarah J. Spicer, - - - - 250 

William H. Mann, - - - 210 

S. Tappen, - 200 

Dr. Wm. Finder, jr., - 200 

W. L. Van Alstyne, - - - 200 

Rev. George W. Brown, - - 200 

Isaac Keith, - 200 

Paul Wager, - - - - 160 

C. Brockway, - - - - i5o 

R. Phillips, - - - - 150 

Joseph H. Knight, - - - - 150 

Alice Queal, - - - - 150 

Mrs. E. A. Goss, - - - - 140 

A. L. Hotchkin, - - - 125 

L. H. Wait, - - - - 125 

S. J. Brown, - - - - 120 

Mrs. Alice Sawyer, - - - 115 

Charles M. Estes, - - - no 

George W. Almy, - - - - no 

Robert Nelson, - - - no 

Robert Seymour, - - - - 100 

G. G. Thompson, - - - 100 

Henry Davis, - - - - 100 

Mary J. Byers, - - - - 100 



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George Bates, - - - - ioo 

M. C. Mallory, - - - - ioo 

Rev. L. Barber, - - - - ioo 

Mrs. J. N. Mulford, - - - ioo 

R. B. Caldwell, - - - - ioo 

N. S. Vedder, - - - - ioo 

Eleanor A. Young, - - - - ioo 

Charles E. Peabody, - - - ioo 

George G. Converse, - - - ioo 

W. M. Peckham, - - - ioo 

Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, - - - ioo 

C. A. Sherwood, - - - ioo 

C. L. Martin, - - - - ioo 

J. B. Clark, - - - - ioo 



206 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Centenary Subscriptions to Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, MlDDLETOWN, CONN., 1866 "67, 
by which a Scholarship was vested in the Trustees of the State Street 
M. E. Church, Troy, N. Y. 

Erastus Wentworth, - - - $100 oo 

Reuben Peckham, - - - 100 oo 

Joseph Hillman, - - - - ioo oo 

William Cluett Family, - - 60 oo 

Nathaniel Lee, - - - - 25 00 

Sidney T. Cary, - - - 20 00 

McMaster's Family, - - - 1 1 00 

J. N. Greenfield, - - - 10 00 

John M. Corliss, - - - 10 00 

Lyman R. Avery, - - - 9 00 

P. W. Converse, - - - 7 00 

Myron King, - - - - 5 00 

H. Lee, - - - - 5 00 

Samuel Peabody, x - - - 5 00 

Chauncey D. Packard, - 5 00 

Mrs. David Cowee, - - - 5 00 

Miss Eleanor A. Young, - - - 5 00 

Andres Family, - - - 4 00 

Peter Bontecou. - - - 3 00 

J. J. Van Deusen, - - - 3 00 

E. S. Brainerd, - - - 3 00 

Cornelia Washburn, - - - 2 00 

Stephen Mallory, - - - - 1 00 

D. Bigelow, - - - ■ • - 1 00 

E. Jones, - - - - - 1 00 

$500 00 



METHODISM IN TROY. 2c 9 



Official Board of the Pawling Avenue 
Church, 1887-88. 

Rev. J. H. Clark, - - - Preacher in Charge, 
Isaac A. Youmans, - - Local Preacher. 

Class Leaders : 

Elizabeth Lovejoy, Almon Snyder, 

George W. Pettit, Philip Wendell. 

Stewards : 

Allen Fredericks, Potter Simmons, 

George C. Hastings, Charles H. Vandenburgh, 

Philip Wendell. 

Trustees : 

William Craver, James Henderson, 

John De Freest, William H. Hollister, 

Nathan M. Hastings, George W. Pettit, 

Abner Henderson, George Weatherwax. 

George C. Hastings, Sunday-school Sup't. 



15 



2IO 



METHODISM IN TROY 



Members of the Pawling Avenue Church 

1887-88. 



Ains worth, Ledia W. 
Allen, Cora E. 
Allen, Cora L. 
Allen, Eliza 
Allen, Marion 
Allen, Sarah 
Allen, Stewart 
Bennett, Albert 
Bennett, Anna 
Bennett, Jasper N. 
Bennett, Mina 
Betts, A. C. 
Betts, Frederick 
Betts, Martha 
Boyce, Delia 
Boyce, Kate 
Boyce, Maggie 
Boyce, Maranda 
Boyd, L. George 
Boyd, Mary 
Briggs, Adelaide 
Briggs, Helen 
Bunce, Isabella 
Cammeron, Anna 
Campbell, Anna 
Campbell, Christiana 
Carner, Helen 



Carner, John 
Clark, Florence A. 
Clark, Lola M. 
Clark, Mabel W. 
Clark, Randolph F. 
Clickner, Henry 
Clickner, Mary 
Cole, Lizzie 
Covel, Sarah 
Cramer, James E. 
Cramer, Josephine 
Craver, Catharine 
Craver, Elizabeth S. 
Craver, William 
De Freest, Ella 
De Freest, Eleanor 
De Freest, Jno. A. 
Dick, Frank 
Driggs, Sarah 
Dutcher, George W. 
Dutcher, Lillian 
Egleston, Alice 
Finch, Caroline L. 
Finch, Diana 
Finch, John L. 
Ford, Fannie A. 
Fredericks, Allen 



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211 



Fredericks, Elizabeth 
Gillis, Clara 
Gillis, Edward 
Grate, Amelia 
Happe, Emma 
Happe, Josie 
Hastings, Elizabeth 
Hastings, George 
Hastings, George C. 
Hay, Gertrude 
Hayner, Carrie 
Henderson, Abner 
Henderson, Frances C. 
Henderson, Frank 
Henderson, James C. 
Hines, Maggie 
Hines, Mary 
Hines, Mrs. Mary 
Hines, Minnie 
Hines, Sarah 
Hollister, Carrie 
Hull, Lillian, 
Humphrey, Allen 
Humphrey, Fidelia 
Ives, Emeline 
Jackson, Elizabeth 
Keeler, Katie 
Knight, Catharine 
Kochart, Emma 
Kochart Paulina 



Koon, Anna 
Lovejoy, Elizabeth 
Mambert, Mary 
Manrille, Jonas 
Maxon, Clara 
McPherson, Eliza 
Minkler, Albert 
Minkler, Charles 
Minkler, Eveline 
Minkler, Lizzie 
Moll, Mary 
Moll, Robert 
Moran, Sarah 
Morris, Mattie 
Munro, Mary 
Palmer, Alice 
Palmer, Eveline 
Perrigo, Fannie 
Pettit, Earl S. 
Pettit, George W. 
Pettit, Jennie M. 
Rifenburgh, Betsey M. 
Rush, Rebecca 
Service, Alferrett 
Service, Amelia 
Service, Margaret 
Service, William H. 
Sharpe, George H. 
Sharpe, Jane 
Simmons, Annie F 



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Simmons, Jessie 
Simmons, Louisa 
Simmons, Potter S. 
Simmons, Stephen 
Slater, Anna 
Smith, Edgar 
Snyder, Almon 
Stillman, Chester 
Stillman, Josephine 
Stillman, Roscal 
Strope, Mrs. A. M. 
Strope, Daniel 
Taylor, Sarah 
Templeton, Sarah M. 
Tilley, Albert 
Tilley, Anna 
Tilley, Charles 
Tilley, Edwin 
Tilley, Ellen 
Tilley, Jessica 
Tilley, Martha 
Traver, Benjamin 
Traver, Florence 
Travis, Alva 
Truax, Charles 
Utz, Ida 



Utz, John A. 
Utz, Minnie 

Vandenburgh, Charles H< 
Vandenburgh, Louisa 
Vanderpool, Adelbert 
Vanderpool, Agnes 
Vanderpool, John 
Vanderpool, Lucinda R. 
Van Woert, Susie 
Weatherwax, Cyntha 
Weather wax, George 
Wendell, Ida 
Wendell, Mattie E. 
Wendell, Phillip I. 
Wheeler, Ella 
Whitbeck, Eliza 
White, George 
White, James H, 
White, Mary 
Wilson, Alice A. 
Wright, Lottie 
Wright, Mary A. 
Youmans, Burton 
Youmans, Chester A. 
Youmans, Rev. Isaac A. 
Zangler, Lillian 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Pawling Avenue M. E. Sunday School, 
1887-88. 



Officers : 

- Pastor, 
Superintendent, 

- Asst. Superintendent, 
Secretary, 

- Asst Secretary, 



Rev. J. H. Clark, 

G. C. Hastings, 

Rev. I. A. Youmans, 

A. H. Travis, - 

Burton Youmans, - 

Albert Minkler, 

George L. Boyd, 

Miss Frances C. Henderson, Sup't of Infant Dept, 

Miss Fannie Ford, - - Asst.Supt. of Infant Dept, 

Miss Fannie Ford, - - Organist, 

Miss Retta Service, - - Asst Organist, 

G. C. Hastings,- - - Chorister. 



Librarians, 



Rev. J. H. Clark, 
Almon Snyder, 
Mrs. Albert Bennett 
Mrs. John Carner, 
Mrs. A. Fredericks, 



Teachers : 

Mrs. Libbie Lovejoy, 
Mrs. Albert Minkler, 
Mrs. Eveline Minkler, 
Miss Alice Palmer, 
Mrs. Josephine Stillman 



Miss Emma Happe, 
Mrs. G. C. Hastings, 



Miss Ida Wendell, 
Mrs. M. A. Wheeler, 



Mrs. Catharine Knight, Miss Susie Van Woert 



2i 4 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Official Board of the Fifth Avenue 
Church, 1887-88. 

Rev. Henry Graham, D. D., Preacher in Charge. 

Class Leaders : 

A. D. Banker, R. B. Hurd, 

Ira S. Bush, A. VV. Pulis, 

H. C. Curtis, Mary Rowe, 

C. B. Gray, C. W". Rowley, 

R. W. Hewitt, E. D. Waldron, 

L. Hull, S. L. Wood. 

Stewards : 
Charles H. Benedict, A. D. Lyon, 

Isaac Bogardus, P. S. Pettit, 

A. A. Bunce, William H. Pike, 

Herbert Ford, Lorenzo D. Streeter, 

George Hughes, George W. Van Alstyne, 

J. V. Jacobs, A. Whited, 

S. L. Wood. 

Isaac Bogardus, - Recording Steward, 

S. L. W T ood, - ■ - - - District Steward. 

Trustees : 
Oliver Boutwell, J orm Leggett, 

H. C. Curtis, Joseph Leggett, 

George P. Ide, William H. Rowe, 

John C. Ide, E. W. Simpson, 

E. D. Waldron. 

H. C. Curtis, Sunday-school Superintendent. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



217 



Members of the Fifth Avenue Church, 
1887-88. 



Abbott, Elery J. 
Abbott, Frank B. 
Abbott, Minnie M. 
Abbott, Sarah 
Acome, Delia 
Acome, Richard, 
Adams, Addie M. 
Adams, Marietta 
Adams, Susan E. 
Adkins, Archibald 
Adkins, Harriet 
Allen, Jennie 
Anthony, Aaron 
Anthony, Josie R. 
Anthony, Lydia B. 
Archibald, George 
Archibald, John 
Armitage, Mary B. 
Armitage, William P. 
Armsbury, Charlotte, 
Arndt, Rosa 
Arnold, Emily 
Bacheldor, Chester 
Bacheldor, Olive M. 
Bacheldor, Rebecca 
Bailey, Elzora 
Baker, Maggie A. 



Baldwin, Helen T. 
Baldwin, Melville C. 
Baldwin, Sarah J. 
Banker, Alex. D. 
Banker, Florence E. 
Barker, Lavinia 
Barnes, Lorilla L. 
Barringer, Harriet M. 
Barringer, Sarah E. 
Bateman, Alice 
Battershall, Jane 
Bawden, William J. 
Beattie, Carl 
Beattie, Dora 
Beattie, Mabel 
Becker, Anna R. 
Becker, A. C. 
Benedict, Charles H. 
Benedict, Eliza 
Benedict, T. Lee 
Benedict, Sarah A. 
Bennett, Inez 
Bennett, Mrs. Rola 
Betts, Clarence E. 
Betts, Mrs. C. E. 
Bibb, Edwin 
Bibb, Hannah M. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Bigelman, Ada 
Bigelman, Laura 
Birdsall, Maria 
Blackburn, Lois 
Bogardus, Anna 
Bogardus, Hannah 
Bogardus, Isaac 
Bogardus, Magdelena 
Bogardus, Viana 
Bolster, Dewitt E. 
Boumis, Eva 
Bounds, Burton 
Bounds, jr., John W. 
Bounds, Mary 
Boutwell, Harriet 
Boutwell, Oliver 
Boutwell, Phcebe A. 
Boutwell, Theodore 
Boxley, Alice 
Boxley, Caroline 
Boxley, George 
Bradshaw, Anna M. 
Bradshaw, Mary J. 
Brakes, Mary J. 
Brakes, Samuel 
Brandon, Irving 
Brandon, Jennie M. 
Briggs, Cynthia 
Bristol, George 
Bristol, Grace 



Bristol, Margaret 
Bristol, Mary 
Brooks, Emma 
Broughton, Henry O. 
Broughton, Jane 
Brown, Edith 
Brown, E. Fisk 
Brown, Florence A. 
Brown, Jane M. 
Brown, Louisa 
Brundage, Lizzie 
Bryan, Libbie 
Bull, Caroline 
Bull, Charlotte 
Bulson, Hattie 
Bump, Mary 
Bunce, Alonzo A. 
Bunce, Mary C. 
Bundy, Maggie 
Burtis, Mary L. 
Burton, John W. 
Bush, Ira G. 
Bussey, Elizabeth C. 
Calhoun, Anna B. 
Calhoun, Elizabeth 
Calhoun, Mary J. 
Calhoun, Thomas 
Campbell, Adeline 
Campbell, Jennie 
Campbell, Lillian 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



219 



Campbell, Martin V. 
Campbell, Mary 
Carr, Alice 
Carr, Mrs. Wm. H. 
Carruthers, Louisa M. 
Chambers, Fanny 
Chappell, Rachel 
Christopher, Carrie E. 
Clark, Caroline 
Clark, Emma 
Clark, Emma L. 
Clark, Hannah 
Clark, Ransom 
Cleminshaw, Laura 
Cole, Dulcena M. 
Cole, Ida E. 
Collins, Julia 
Congdon, Eliza 
Conner, William 
Connor, Emma 
Cook, Mary 
Cooke, Angeline 
Cooke, Julia E. 
Cookingham, Jennie A. 
Cooper, James 
Coss, Caroline 
Costello, Annie 
Cottrell, Nancy 
Cox, Gertrude 
Crandall, Eliza 



Curtis, Harry S. 
Curtis, Henry C. 
Curtis, Mercy 
David, Edmund V. 
Davis, Eliza A. 
Davis, Mary A. 
Dayton, Laura 
Dean, Nellie 
Decker, Adalbert E. 
Decker, Lodemia 
Dedrick, Sarah 
Delavergne, Emily J. 
De Long, J. H. 
De Long, Sarah E. 
Derrick, Sally 
Dixon, John J. 
Dixon, Mary J. 
Dollar, Fannie A. 
Dooris, Jennie 
Dooris, Joseph M. 
Douglass, Serula 
Dunsbeck, Edith 
Dunshee, Nellie 
Dusenberry, Levinus 
Dusenberry, Mary E. 
Eddy, George W. 
Edmans, Frank T. 
Edmans, George P. 
Edmans, Julia M. 
Edmans, Walter T. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Emerson, Ida M. 
Emerson, Oliver K. 
Emery, Bessie A. 
Emory, John W. 
Evarts, Emma 
Evarts, H. A. 
Evarts, Harry L. 
Feasey, Caroline 
Feasey, Lavina 
Feasey, Thomas 
Felt, Ellen J. 
Felter, Charles A. 
Felter, Edwin 
Felter, Sophia 
Fleming, John F. 
Folensbee, Helen M. 
Fonda, Lydia J. 
Foose, Alida 
Foose, Mary 
Foose, Stella M. 
Ford, Ella 
Ford, Herbert 
Ford, Isaac V. 
Ford, Kate E. 
Fortune, Louisa M. 
Fox, George E. 
Freeman, Cordelia 
Freeman, Josephine 
Frost, Edward J. 
Gage, Emeline 



Gage, Jessie F. 
Gaofe, Viola 
Gates, Addie C. 
German, Kate 
Gibbon, Mary 
Gifford, Ida L. 
Gifford, Mary J. 
Gifford, M. P. 
Giles, Charles C. 
Gill, Charles 
Gill, Edward 
Gill, Martha 
Gill, William S. 
Gillespie, Bertha M. 
Gillies, Nellie 
Gilman, Mary E. 
Gledhill, Mary E. 
Gould, Jennie 
Gould, Jennie 
Gould, Lillie H, 
Goynes, Mary 
Graham, Mattie A. 
Graham, Nettie F. 
Graham, Sarah N. 
Gray, Alice 
Gray, Carrie 
Gray, Charles B. 
Gray, Sarah E. 
Gray, Stannard 
Green, Charles F. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Green, Lucinda 
Green, Minnie B. 
Green, Oscar 
Greenman, Emily M. 
Grieves, Bella 
Groom, Eliza 
Guenther, George 
Guenther, Julia M. 
Guenther, Katie R. 
Guile, Eveliza 
Gunnison, Azubah 
Gunnison, Carrie 
Hamill, Lizzie 
Hammond, Charles H. 
Hammond, Henry 
Hammond, Mary H. 
Hampton, Mattie 
Hampton, Mary F. 
Harris, Edith 
Harris, Harriet L. 
Harris, J. Ann 
Harris, John W. 
Harris, Martha J. 
Hart, Clara 
Hartshorn, Nancy V. 
Hastings, Loring M. 
Hastings, Maria A. 
Helms, Henrietta 
Helms, Levi 
Hermance, Anna 



Hewitt, Ann E. 
Hewitt, George W. L. 
Hewitt, Ida May 
Hewitt, R. W. 
Hill, Almira 
Hill, Charles 
Hills, Francis 
Himes, Edward 
Himes, Sarah 
Hoag, Levi 
Hoag, Ruth G. 
Hodges, Clara 
Hoffmaster, Olivia 
Holmes, Augusta M. 
Holmes, Osborn W. 
Holtz, Nellie 
Hooper, John 
Howe, Chandler C. 
Hudson, Loraine 
Hudson, Thomas 
Hughes, George 
Hughes, Lucy 
Hull, Fred. 
Hull, Jennie 
Hull, Levaldin 
Hull, Margaret 
Hunt, Margaret M. 
Hurd, Cora 
Hurd, Delia G. 
Hurd, George B. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Hurd, Gertie V. 
Hurd, R. B. 
Hurd, Rollin J. 
Ide, Herbert S. 
Ide, John C. 
Ide, Josephine 
Ide, Mrs. George P. 
Ide, Stella M. 
Irvin, Margaret 
acobs, Anetta E. 
acobs, Jacob V. 
acobs, John E. 
acobs, Mary A. 
amieson, Matilda 
essemine, James 
ohnson, Frederick 
ohnson, Sarah F. 
ones, Addie 
ones, Catharine 
ones, Lizzie 
ones, Maria 
Kilburn, Sophia W. 
Kilby, Charles 
Kimball, Burr 
Kincaid, Agnes 
King, Eliza J, 
Kinlock, Alexander 
Kinlock, Mary J. 
Kinlock, Read 
Kipp, Abbie E. 



Kirk, Elizabeth 
Kline, Leonard 
Kline, Mary 
Koehler, John 
Landon, Frederick E. 
Landon, Rosa 
Lane, Anna 
Lane, George N. 
Lane, Sarah C. 
Lansing, Garrett 
Lansing, Hattie 
Lansing, Laura 
Lawrence, Ocena 
Learned, Alice 
Leggett, Delia M. 
Leggett, John 
Leggett, Joseph 
Leggett, Mary Belle 
Leggett, Mary E. 
Lewis, Mary J. 
Link, Effie 
Lont, Lucinda 
Lont, Cornelia 
Lull, Henrietta 
Lyon, Asa D. 
Lyon, Bert 
Lyon, H. Elizabeth 
Lyon, Job P. 
Magee, Anna M. 
Magee, Edgar E. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Magee, Harriet E. 
Magee, Libbie 
Magee, Rosena F. 
M a^uire, Maria 
Main, Mattie E. 
Marsh, Alice 
Marshall, Ellen 
Marshall, Richard 
Marston, Clara 
Mateer, W. Newton 
McChesney, Catharine 
McChesney, Charlotte 
McChesney, Martha J. 
McClure, Elizabeth 
Mcllvaine, Nancy 
Mead, Hattie L. 
Miller, Addie E. 
Miller, Alcena 
Miller, Ann 
Miller, Libbie 
Miller, Margaret 
Miller, Sarah A. 
Moore, Lewis K. 
Morgan, Anna 
Mott, Caroline 
Mott, Emma 
Mullen, Sarah 
N orris, Anna 
N orris, George 
N orris, Mary E. 



North, Amanda 
O'Brien, Carrie 
Olmstead, Sarah 
Paddock, C. M. 
Palmer, A. Lincoln 
Parker, Henrietta 
Parks, Julia 
Patchke, Carrie 
Patterson, Margaret 
Payfer, George M. 
Peabody, Joseph 
Peabody, Mary A. 
Peek, Florence 
Penrose, Anna 
Perry, Annie 
Perry, Bennett 
Perry, Mary 
Pettit, Abbie 
Pettit, Alice 
Pettit, Arthur 
Pettit, David H. 
Pettit, Eunice C. 
Pettit, Jennie 
Pettit, Phineas S. 
Phillips, Henry 
Phillips, Mary E. 
Pickering, Sarah F. 
Pike, William H. 
Pitcher, Libbie 
Pitts, Mary 



224 



METHODISM IN TROY, 



Powell, Mark K. 
Pratt, Annie E. 
Pratt, Chanty 
Pratt, John P. 
Pratt, Julia A. 
Prentice, Charles C. 
Prentice, Parmelia M. 
Pulis, Abram 
Pulis, Catharine 
Pulis, Jennie 
Pulis, Jessie 
Pulis, Nellie 
Pulis, Olive 
Quigley, Mary H. 
Quigley, William H. 
Quivey, Alta 
Ranken, Sabrina 
Ranken, William 
Ratoon, Minnie 
Reynolds, Nathaniel 
Rice, William 
Rich, Ruth M. 
Ring, Sarah 
Roach, Dora M. 
Robertson, Minnie A. 
Robertson, Thurza 
Rogers, John W. 
Rogers, Mary A. 
Rogers, Mrs. R. A. 
Rogers, Thomas 



Rood, Lucy 
Rowe, Lucretia 
Rowe, Francis J. 
Rowe, Lucy A. W. 
Rowe, Mary 
Rowe, William H. 
Rowe, jr., William H, 
Rowles, D. Henry 
Rowles, Mary R. 
Rowley, Charles W. 
Scott, Auline 
Seaman, Mary 
Sexton, Charles H. 
Shafer, Clarence E. 
Shafer, Eliza 
Sheffers, Lemira B. 
Sherwood, Lucia M. 
Sherwood, Sarah A. 
Shooks, Marietta 
Simpson, Almira 
Sleight, Mary 
Sleight, Roxy 
Slocum, Charlotte E. 
Smith, Charles 
Smith, Elizabeth 
Smith, Emaline 
Smith, Emily 
Smith, George E. 
Smith. Hannah 
Smith, Julia 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Smith, Mary J. 
Smith, Sarah E. 
Smith, S. Lillie 
Snyder, Abby J. 
Snyder, Cora 
Snyder, Ella 
Snyder, Ida 
Snyder, Margaret E. 
Snyder, William R. 
Stanley, Eames 
Stanley, Jane 
Stanley, Mary 
Stanley, Rosanna 
Stannard, Alice M. 
Stannard, Carrie D. 
Stannard, Henrietta 
Stannard, John D. 
Starr, Margaret 
Starr, William 
Staunton, Elmer E. 
Sterry, Laura A. 
Stewart, Mary F. 
Stone, Kate A. 
Streeter, Lorenzo 
Streeter, Mrs. Lorenzo 
Swan, Delia 
Swartwout, Mary C. 
Thayer, Emma 
Thayer, Gussie 
Thayer, Sarah 



Thayer, Sarah A. 
Thayer, Walter 
Tiffany, Eleanor 
Tracy, Deborah 
Tripp, Hattie L. 
Tully, Wm. E. 
Turner, Lavinia 
Turner, Royal L. 
Tuthill, Nancy 
Tuttle, Emma M. 
Uline, Rebecca 
Van Alstyne, Alice 
Van Alstyne, Anna G. 
Van Alstyne, Calsinai 
Van Alstyne, Geo. W. 
Van Alstyne, Richard H. 
Van Alstyne, Sally E. 
Van Alstyne, Wm. L. 
Van Alstyne, jr., Wm. L. 
Van Antwerp, Alice 
Van Antwerp, Mattie 
Van Buren, Carrie 
Van Buren, Catharine 
Van Buren, Eva 
Van Buren, Julia F. 
Van Buren, Lucretia 
Van Buren, Rebecca 
Vandecar, Ann J. 
Van Deusen, Charles B. 
Van Deusen, Retta 



226 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Van Deusen, Sarah 
Van Hoesen, Francis 
Van Hoesen, Margaret 
Van Hoesen, Oscar A. 
Van Hoesen, Sarah J. 
Van Hoesen, William 
Van Ness, Glorianna 
Van Vleck, Francis W. 
Van Vleck, Luella L. 
Vedder, Ada A. 
Viall, Cora 
Viall, Frank P. 
Vines, Eli P. 
Vines, Fannie C. 
Vines, Sophia 
Vrooman, Carrie F. 
Waite, Gay 
Waldron, Ephraim D. 
Waldron, Hannah 
Waldron, Sarah A. 
Ward, Tillie 
Warner, Mary E. 
Waters, Hattie 
Waters, William 
Weaver, Annie 
Wells, Myra 



Wemett, Electra 
Wenzell, Charles H. 
White, Anna M. 
Whited, Alvinze 
Whited, Florence A. 
Wickham, Annie 
Wickham, Lillie 
Wilcox, Mary 
Wilkinson, Thomas 
Wilson, Hannah S. 
Wilson, Julia 
Wilson, Minnie L. 
Wilson, Perry H. 
Winne, Martha 
Witherell, Louisa 
Wixon, Kate 
Wood, Almira 
Wood, Mary L. 
Wood, S. L. 
Woodruff, Clara I. 
Woolfe, Catharine M. 
Woolfe, George 
Wright, Mary L. 
Wright, Sarah A. 
Youn^, Georoqetta 
Zears, Jennie 



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227 



Fifth Avenue M. E. Sunday School, 1887-88. 



Officers : 


Rev. H. Graham, - 


- Pastor. 


H. C. Curtis, 


Superintendent. 


Levi Hoag, - 


- Asst. Superintendent. 


Mrs. A. D. Lyon, 


Female Superintendent. 


G. W. Van Alstyne, 


- Secretary. 


W. L. Van Alstyne, jr., 


Asst. Secretary, 


Wm. H. Quigley, 


Treasurer. 


H. A. Evarts, 


- Librarian. 


J. F. Fleming. - 


Asst. Librarian. 


H. L. Evarts, 


- Asst. Librarian, 


E. F. Brown, - 


Asst. Librarian. 


Bert. Lyon, 


- Asst. Librarian. 


W. H. Pike, ) 


Church Commission on 


I. Bogardus, ) 


Sunday School. 


Teachers : 


A. D. Banker, 


Miss Lillie Gould, 


C. H. Benedict, 


Miss Carrie Gray, 


I. S. Bush, 


Mrs. Edward Green, 


J. H. De Long, 


Miss Kate Guenther, 


C. H. Hammond, 


Mrs. Levi Hoag, 


R. W. Hewitt, 


Miss Ida Hewitt, 


R. B. Hurd, 


Mrs. Frederick Johnson, 


Miss Sarah Baldwin, 


Mrs. J. B. Jones, 


Mrs. A. D. Banker, 


Miss Lizzie Jones, 


Mrs. C. H. Benedict, 


Miss Abbie Kipp, 


Miss Eva Bouns, 


Miss Jennie Pettit, 


Miss Florence Brown, 


Miss Julia Pratt, 


Mrs. H. C. Curtis, 


Mrs. W. H. Quigley, 


Mrs. E. J. De Lavergne, 


Miss Mary Rowe, 


Mrs. H. Ford, 


Mrs. E. W. Simpson, 


Miss Jennie Gould, 


Mrs. J. H. White. 



228 METHODISM IN TROY. 



Official Board of the Third St. Church, 

1887-88. 

Rev. J. P. Haller, - - - Preacher in Charge, 
George M. Bowns, - - Local Preacher. 

Class Leaders : 
Kingman Golledge, Benjamin Vipond. 

Stewards : 

Lewis Birkenshaw, John Hayes, 

Samuel Bord, John Shetland, 

William Claydon, Charles J. Shroder, 

John De Freest, Samuel L. Taylor, 

David Greer, Benjamin Vipond, 

Joseph Weston. 



Trustees : 

Samuel Bord, Daniel Klock, jr., 

David Greer, T. W. P. Patterson, 

Thomas W. Hislop, Charles J. Shroder. 

Daniel Klock, jr., Sunday-school Superintendent. 



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Members of the Third St. 
1887-88. 



Church, 



Armstrong, Maggie 
Ashton, James 
Bainbridge, William 
Bancroft, Mrs. C. J. 
Birkenshaw, Lewis 
Bissell, Harry 
Bissell, Maggie 
Bissell, Melissa 
Bissell, Mrs. M. H. 
Bord, Charlotte 
Bord, Charlotte T. 
Bord, Lydia 
Bord, Samuel 
Bowns, Eliza 
Braman, Edmund 
Braman, Hattie 
Braman, John E. 
Braman, Mrs. John E. 
Bruce, Maria 
Bruce, Sarah 
Bumsted, Margaret 
Burkal, James 
Cary, Mary 
Claydon, Albert, 
Claydon, W. 
Claydon, Mrs. W. 
Cooper, S. Belle 
Danks, Phcebe 
De Freest, John 



De Freest, Melinda 
Ensign, Carrie 
Essegian, Moses 
Ferguson, James 
Ferguson, Peter 
Fisher, Freda 
Ford, Jane 
Gloss, Allan 
Gloss, Elinor E. 
Golledee, Kino-man 
Greer, Kitty 
Greer, William S. 
Guy, Elizabeth 
Halse, Douglass 
Halse, Jane 
Halse, Lizzie 
Hanson, James 
Hanson, Mrs. James 
Harber, Alfred 
Harden, Catherine 
Harrington, Lena B. 
Harrison, Helen J. 
Hayes, Annie 
Hayes, John 
Hayes, Mary 
Hayes, Mary L. 
Hayes, Priscilla 
Heuson, John 
Hislop, Annie 



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Jones, Libbie 
Lee, James 
Luce, Thomas 
McChesney, Barbara 
McChesney, Delia 
McKean, John 
Meachem, John 
Meachem, Lydia 
Meachem, Mrs. Charles 
Meachem, Susie 
Meachem, Thomas 
Meek, Abraham 
Meek, Nancy 
Meek, Timothy 
Moore, Henry 
Morton, John 
Olmstead, Mary 
Payne, Mary 
Payne, William 
Rouse, Amelia 
Rouse, Frankie 
Rouse, W. W. 
Shaw, Myra 
Shetland, Ida 
Shetland, John 
Shetland, Kitty 
Shetland, Maggie 
Shetland, Mary 
Shetland, Lily 
Shout, Lucinda 
Shroder, Charles J. 
Shroder, Kate 
Simpson, Annie 
Simpson, James 



Siples, Jacob 
Siples, Warren 
Snyder, Jessie 
Stevenson, Emily 
Stevenson, John 
Stevenson, Mrs. John 
Sutton, Nancy 
Swan, Delia 
Taylor, Emma 
Taylor, Josie 
Taylor. Lucy 
Taylor, Samuel L. 
Thicket, Elizabeth 
Thicket, Joshua 
TifTt, Elmira K. 
Timmins, Emma 
Tolmie, Jennie 
Tolmie, Martha 
Tolmie, Thomas 
Tracy, Jane 
Trotter, Elizabeth 
Turner, Emma 
Turner, Harriet 
Turner, Josiah 
Turner, Mary 
Van Hoesen, Maria 
Van Hoesen, Milton 
Vipond, Benjamin 
Weston, Charles 
Weston, George R. 
Weston, Joseph 
Williams, Charles 
Williams, Frank 
Witbeck, Sarah 



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Third Street M. E. Sunday School, 
1887-88. 



Officers : 



Rev. J. H. Robinson, 
Daniel Klock, jr., - 
Thomas W. P. Patterson, 
David Greer, 
William R. Cooper, - 
George R. Weston, 
Thomas W. Hislop, - 
Samuel L. Taylor, 
William Claydon, 
Miss Myra Shaw, 
Miss S. Belle Cooper, 
Miss Anna Hayes, 
Lorenzo Braman, 
Mrs. David Greer, 



Pastor, 

Superintendent, 

1st Asst. Superintendent, 

2d Asst. Superintendent, 

Secretary, 

Asst. Secretary, 

Treasurer, 

Librarian, 

Asst. Librarian, 

Female Superintendent, 

Supt. Primary Dept., 

Asst. Supt. Primary Dept., 

Chorister, 

Organist. 



Teachers 



Kingman Golledge, 
Rev. J. H. Robinson, 
Mrs. J. E. Braman. jr. 
Miss Sarah Bruce, 
Miss Lillie Cooper, 
Miss Phcebe Danks, 
Mrs. John De Freest, 



Miss Carrie Ensign, 

Mrs. David Greer, 

Mrs. Thos. W. P. Patterson, 

Mrs. J. H. Robinson, 

Miss Myra Shaw, 

Miss Delia Swan, 

Miss Jessie Warner. 



234 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Official Board of Trinity Church, 
1887-88. 

Rev. P. L. Dow, - - - Preacher in Charee. 

James H. Bounds, ] 

William H. Edwards, I 

TTTM1 . ^ }■ - Local Preachers. 

William Foster, 

William H. Manning, J 

Joseph Hillman, - - Exhorter. 

Class Leaders : 

S. P. Allen. Charles W. Hulbert, 

Israel Bickford, Mrs. C. W. Hulbert, 

Isaac S. Bussing, Howard S. Kennedy, 

William Foster, William H. Manning, 

Joseph Hillman, William E. Smith. 

Stewards : 
Fred. Beiermeister, jr., Thomas Edwards, 

Adam Clint, Joseph Hillman, 

Jesse Crannell, Howard S. Kennedy, 

Edward Edwards, Lewis Roth, 

James W. Wood. 

Trustees : 
Fred. Beiermeister, jr., Joseph Hillman, 

Israel Bickford, Charles W. Hulbert, 

George W. Cary, James A. McPherson. 

William E. Smith. 

James W. Wood, Sunday-school Superintendent. 



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237 



Members of Trinity Church, 
1887-88. 



Abrames, Adelia 
Abrames, Charity 
Abrames, Ella M. 
Abrames, Harvey 
Abrames, Jessie 
Abrames, John 
Abrames, Minnie 
Ager, James B. 
Allen, Addie A. 
Allen, Addie 
Allen, Alexander S. 
Allen, Annie E. 
Allen, Ella May 
Allen, Stanton P. 
Andrews, James 
Andrews, Nancy 
Austin, Georgiana 
Austin, John C. 
Bailey, Julia M. 
Bailey, Sidney C. 
Beam, Augustus 
Beiermeister, Charlotte 
Beiermeister, jr,. Fred. 
Beiermeister, Jennie 
Beiermeister, William 
Bennett, Elizabeth 
Bentley, Florence 
Bentley, Maria 



Bentley, Minnie 
Bergh, William 
Bickford, Almira 
Bickford, Israel 
Bickford, Thomas H. 
Blackwood, Charlotte 
Blackwood, Jennie 
Bloomingdale, Annie R. 
Bloomingdale, Edward J. 
Bloomingdale, George 
Bloomingdale, Josephine 
Bloomingdale, Pheobe 
Bonesteel, Hattie 
Bonesteel, Leuella 
Bose, Robert G. 
Bounds, James H. 
Bowdy, William H. 
Brandow, Maria 
Brandow, William 
Brewer, Caroline 
Brimmer, Annie 
Brimmer, John 
Brimmer, Fannie 
Brown, Angelina 
Brown, Emma 
Brush, Lavina 
Brush, Rosella 
Brush, Tallman 



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Buchan, Jane, 
Buckley, Clara 
Burdick, Elizabeth 
Burdick, Jennie E. 
Burdick, Joel T. 
Burdick, H. Libbie 
Burdick, Wallace 
Bussey, Bertha 
Bussing, Ella S. 
Bussing, Isaac 
Button, George W. 
Button, Rebecca 
Byrne, Sarah 
Calkins, Alice 
Calkins, Charles W. 
Campaigne, Bertha 
Campaigne, Jennie M. 
Campaigne, Jonathan 
Campaigne, Margaret 
Campaigne, Thomas 
Campaigne, Thomas A. 
Campaigne, William 
Campbell, Catharine 
Campbell, Emma 
Campbell, Jennie F. 
Campbell, Lottie 
Carnrick, Lillian M. 
Cary, Elizabeth A. 
Cary, George 
Cary, Hannah 



Cary, William 
Cass, Annie 
Castle, John 
Chamberlain, Harriet 
Chambers, Anna F. 
Chambers, Emily J. 
Chisholm, John 
Churchill, Nellie 
Clark, Anna J. 
Clark, David J. 
Clark, Martha 
Clark, Sheldon J. 
Clickner, Eliza 
Clickner, Jacob M. 
Clint, Adam 
Clint, Annie Frances 
Clint, Jesse 
Clint, Sarah 
Coffin, Deborah 
Coffin, Peter 
Cogger, Lottie 
Conklin, Ella 
Corps, Kate 
Corps, Millicent 
Covert, Emma 
Cox, Mary L. 
Cox, Sarah E 
Crannell, Jane 
Crannell, Jesse 
Crannell, Julia 



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239 



Crannell, Maria 
Crannell, Marvin D. 
Crannell, Mary E. 
Crannell, Phoebe 
Crannell, William 
Craver, Alvina 
Craver, Chauncey 
Craver, Fanny 
Craver, John W. 
Craver, John Wesley 
Craver, Martha 
Craver, Sarah Eveline 
Crawford, Emma 
Crawford, George A. 
Crawford, Fred. W. 
Crawford, Margaret 
Crawford, Rebeena R. 
Crooker, Mary 
Crooker, Sarah J. 
Cross, Alfred 
Cross, Anna E. 
Curry, Martha 
Curtis, Stiles 
Daly, Ellen 
Davidson, Bertha 
Davidson, Georgiana 
Davidson, Robert 
Deihl, Adeline Ogden 
Deihl, Josephine 
Deihl, Andrew 



Deihl, Augustus 
Dow, Carrie R. 
Dow, George H. P. 
Dow, Mary E. 
Dow, William L. 
Draper, Jane 
Dudoire, Fannie 
Dudoire, Hulalie 
Dudoire, Nelson 
Dudoire, Peter M. 
Dutcher, William H. 
Eklund, Dorothy 
Eklund, John E. 
Edwards, Annie E. 
Edwards, Eddie 
Edwards, Edward 
Edwards, Emma 
Edwards, Frederick 
Edwards, George 
Edwards, Jonathan 
Edwards, Lilly 
Edwards, Maggie 
Edwards, Mary A. 
Edwards, Mary C. 
Edwards, Thomas 
Edwards, Thomas C. 
Edwards, Thomas Ensign 
Edwards, William H. 
Emerson, Lottie 
Emerson, Nettie 



240 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Emerson, Phoebe 
Emerson, William 
Farr, Gertrude H. 
Farr, Mary E. 
Farr, Mattie P. 
Farr, Nelson J. 
Files, Cordelia 
Files, Nancy 
Finch, John W. 
Finch, Marg. Mickle 
Finder, John 
Firth, Annie 
Firth, Lena 
Fletcher, Ellen 
Forman, George W. 
Foster, Elizabeth 
Foster, William 
Fradenburgh, Alice M. 
Fradenburgh, George W. 
Frear, Chauncey D. 
Frear, Rosanna 
French, Asa 
French, Carrie 
French, Jesse 
French, Louisa 
French, Roswell 
French, Sarah M. 
Gallagher, Bessie 
Gardiner, Kate 
Gardiner, Sarah 



Gardiner, A. 
Geddes, Ellen M. 
Geddes, Herbert M. 
Geddes, Ida 
Geddes, William 
Geer, Lewis 
Gibson, Minnie 
Gilbert, Emogine 
Goewey, Nettie A. 
Goode, Mrs. George H, 
Goode, Mary 
Graham, Eliza 
Green, Bessie C. 
Green, Betsey 
Green, Eliza 
Green, Eveline 
Green, Fred. O. 
Greenman, Maggie J. 
Griffith, John 
Griffith, Lulu 
Hall, Betsey 
Hammer, Thomas 
Hammond, George W. 
Hammond, Sarah C 
Harper, Agnes 
Harper, Carrie 
Harper, Mary 
Harper, John B. 
Harper, Mary 
Harper, Mary 



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241 



Harper, Peter A. 
Harper, William J. 
Harris, Mary J. 
Henry, Chloe Pamelia 
Hicks, Lewis E. 
Hicks, Nellie 
Hillman, Joseph 
Himes, John 
Himes, Libbie 
Hislop, Albert E. 
Hislop, Annie 
Hislop, Elizabeth 
Hislop, Elizabeth 
Hislop, Fannie 
Hislop, Frank W. 
Hislop, Jessie 
Hobbs, DeWitt 
Hobbs, Howard 
Hobbs, Josie 
Hollis, Elizabeth A. 
Holt, Ellen 
Horton, Elvira 
Houghtaling, Mary E. 
Howe, Jerod D. 
Howes, Elizabeth 
Howes, George 
Howes, Hattie 
Hulbert, Charles W. 
Hulbert, Philip F. 
Hulbert, Sarah A. 



Imerson, Ada 
Imerson, Ernest 
Imerson, Esther 
Imerson, Mary 
Jenney, Sarah J. 
Johnson, Sarah J. 
Jones, Ann 
Keating, Cora A. 
Kelly, Hortense 
Kelly, Louise M. 
Kemcut, Nathaniel 
Kemcut, Ida Amelia 
Kendall, Frank 
Kendall, Jennie E. 
Kennedy, Edith 
Kennedy, Elizabeth 
Kennedy, Howard Se 
Kennedy, Josephine 
Kennedy, Lydia A. 
Kennedy, Maggie 
Kennedy, Susie 
Kirk, Celia C. 
Klock, Emma L. 
Klock, Fred 
Knapp, Etta 
Knight, Richard 
Lang, Robert 
Lang, Sarah 
Lassells, Julia 
Lassells, Mary E. 



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242 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Leffler, Adaline 
Leffler, Amelia 
Leffler, Genevive 
Lobdell, Matilda 
Lott, Diana 
Lott, Joseph 
Lott, Libbie 
Lott, Thomas O. 
Mambert, Alvin 
Mambert, Arlington H. 
Mambert, Electra 
Mambert, Grace 
Mambert, Ida 
Mambert, William H. 
Marble, Amanda M. 
Marble, Jennie 
Marble, Lizzie M. 
McAllister, Laura 
McCabe, Alida 
McCabe, James 
McCabe, Sarah 
McCabe, William 
McChesney, Emma 
McCune, Mary 
McCune, Minnie 
McKee, Martha 
McLaughlin, Clara P. 
McLaughlin, Elizabeth 
McPherson, James A. 



McPherson, Maggie 
McPherson, Minnie 
McPherson, Sarah G. 
Meader, Margaret 
Mielenz, Charles F. 
Mielenz, Clara 
Mielenz, Florence 
Mielenz, Ida 
Miller, Adelbert 
Miller, John 
Miller, Julia C. 
Mitchell, Ann 
Mitchell, George 
Mone, Amanda M. 
Moore, Anna 
Moore, Delia 
Moore, Fannie 
Moran, Ella 
More, George W. 
Moses, Elizabeth 
Muckle, Harry L. 
Muckle, Mary B. 
Mulholland, Charles H. 
Mulholland, Emily 
Mulholland, Ellen 
Mulholland, Kate M. 
Outhet, Annie 
Owens, Frances 
Paddock, Mary 



McPherson, jr., James A. Paddock, Orinda E. 



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243 



Parent, Rebecca 
Parnnel, Mary 
Pattison, John A. 
Peterson, Mary 
Pollard, Catherine 
Pollard, Fannie E. 
Pollard, Mary F. 
Pollard, Maria 
Pollock, George F. 
Pollock, Isaac 
Pollock, jr., James 
Pollock, Lottie L. 
Pollock, Mellie 
Powell, Mary 
Reichard, Rosa 
Reichard, Wallace J. 
Reichard, Charles S. 
Reilly, Joseph E. 
Reilly, Mrs. Joseph E. 
Reynolds, Lottie 
Ripple, Kate 
Roarke, Kittie 
Roberts, Sarah 
Robinson, Margaret 
Robinson, Mary 
Roth, Charles A. 
Roth, Edith 
Roth, Ida F. 
Roth, John N. 
Roth, Laura 
Roth, Lewis E. 



Roth, Mary 
Roth, William 
Ruth, Edward 
Ruth, John A. 
Ruth, Maggie 
Rylan, Edwin 
Rylan, Nellie 
Schermerhorn, Catharine 
Schlachter, Carrie L. 
Schlachter, Mary 
Sharp, Augusta 
Sharp, George E. 
Sharp, Minnie 
Sharp, Oakley \ Y. 
Sharp, Sarah 
Shaver, Antoinette 
Shaver, Charles 
Shaver, Cornelia 
Shaver, Jennie 
Sheldon, Charity 
Sheldon, I. W. 
Sheldon, Willis I. 
Shepherd, Hannah 
Sibley, Carrie 
Sibley, George 
Sibley, Nettie 
Sibley, Sarah 
Sibley, Sarah A. 
Sibley, U. H. 
Sickler, Maria 
Simmons, Carrie 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Simmons, Willard 
Simpson, Francis 
Simpson, Hattie V. 
Sliter, Augustus D. 
Sliter, Sarah C. 
Smith, Fannie 
Smith, Hannah 
Smith, Lillian H. 
Smith, William E. 
Stone, Isabella H. 
Swart, Elizabeth 
Swart, Henry G. 
Swart, Mary 
Tate, Lizzie 
Tate, Tillie 
Taylor, Freeman 
Taylor, Katie M. 
Thomas, Amelia 
Thomas, James A. 
Thomas, Leonard 
Thomas, Isaac 
Thomas, Robert G. 
Thomas, Rosanna 
Tompkins, Bessie 
Tompkins, Sarah E. 
Tuttle, Ely H. 
Tuttle, Jennie 
Utter, Martha 
Vanderpool, Eliza 
Van Epps, Lillie 
Van Epps, Harriet 
Van Vranken, Ida 
Van Vranken, Lillie E. 
Vast, Eva 



Vincent, Jennie 
Vipond, Leslie 
Vipond, Milton 
Vipond, Rosena 
Vradenburgh, Mary 
Wager, Dexter P. 
Wager, Emma 
Wagar, Jerusha 
Wagar, William N. 
Walker, Henrietta 
Warner, Josephine 
Weller, Catharine L. 
Wells, Alfred 
Wells, Christina J, 
Wells, Mary 
Wesson, Glecia 
Wheeler, Jessie M. 
White, Sanford C. 
White, Mrs. Sanford C. 
Wilcox, Flora L. 
Wilkes, Alice 
Willis, Julia 
Willey, Sarah 
Willey, Walter 
Wilson, Anna 
Wilson, Anna M. 
Withey, Kesiah 
Wood, Isabella C. 
Wood, James W. 
Wright, Nellie 
Young, Abner J. 
Young, Blanche 
Young, Nancy E. 
Yourt, Charlotte 



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Trinity M. E. Sunday School. 1887-88. 

Officers : 
Rev. John W. Bennett, - Pastor. 



Joseph Hillman, - 
James W. Wood, - 
Israel Bickford, - 
Charles W. Hulbert, 
William E. Smith, 
Philip F. Hulbert, - 
Miss Nettie Sibley, - 
Miss Minnie McPherson, 



President. 

Superintendent. 

ist Asst. Superintendent. 

2d Asst. Superintendent. 

Secretary. 

ist Asst. Secretary. 

2d Asst. Secretary. 

3d Asst. Secretary. 



Mrs. G. W. Fradenburgh, 4th Asst. Secretary. 



Howard S. Kennedy 
Marvin Crannell, 
Fred. Crawford, 
Eli H. Tuttle, - 
Sheldon J. Clark, - 
S. C. Hulbert, 
Carrie Schwall, 
Mrs. J. W. Wood, 
Mrs. E. A. Keating 
Mrs. I. Bickford, 
Mrs. Jesse Crannell, 
Mrs. C. W. Hulbert,) 

Teachers : 



- Treasurer. 
Librarian. 

- ist Asst. Librarian. 
2d Asst. Librarian. 

- 3d Asst. Librarian. 
Chorister. 

- Organist. 
Teacher Infant Dept. 

- Asst. Teacher Infant Dept. 

- Visitors to the Sick and 
Destitute. 



Harvey Abrames, 
Stanton P. Allen, 
John C. Austin, 
Fred. Beiermeister, jr., 
Thomas Burney, 



Isaac S. Bussing, 
Thomas Campaigne, 
Adam Clint, 
Jesse Crannell, 
Robert Davidson, 



246 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Thomas Edwards, 

William H. Edwards, 

George W. Fradenburgh, 

Lewis E. Hicks, 

William H. Manning, 

James McCabe, 

Isaac Pollock, 

Nicholas H. Sibley, 

William H. Wagar, 

Mrs. S. P. Allen, 

Mrs. I. Bickford, 

Mrs. J. J. Brimmer, 

Mrs. W. R. Burdick, 

Mrs. J. Crannell, 

Emma Crawford, 

Mrs. M. Curry, 

Mrs. Robert Davidson, 

Mrs. P. L. Dow, 

Mrs. G. W. Fradenburgh, 

Eliza H. Green, 

Mrs. F. O. Green, 

Agnes Harper, 

Mrs. L. E. Hicks, 

Mrs. C. W. Hulbert, 

Amanda Kirchfield, 

Mrs. James A. McPherson, 

Carrie Schlachter, 

Augusta Sharp, 

Mrs. N. H. Sibley, 

Mrs. William E. Smith, 

Mrs. H. G. Swart, 

Mrs. A. Young, 

Ida Van Vranken, 

Mrs. D. P. Wager. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 

Official Board of Levings Church ; 
1887-88. 



Rev. C. R. Hawley, - Preacher in charge. 

William Carr, 

■ Local Preachers. 

Richard Danks, 



Class Leaders : 
Miss Virginia Craver, William Goeway, 

Silas Downs, Norman Shaver, 

David Dufty, Henry Suydam. 

Stewards : 
A. Bishop, C. J. Herzog, 

Robert Cole, Joseph H. Her, 

Lewis Craver, Fred. Jones, 

J. Diggery, Moses Pagett, 

William Goeway, John K. Travell, 

Leonard J. Warner. 

Trustees : 

O. W. M. Collier, John Dufty, 

P. H. Craver, J. H. Her, 

Sidney R. Curtis. James Pennington, 

J. Smith. 

John Dufty, Sunday-school Superintendent. 



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250 



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Members 

Adams, Mrs. F. 
Aldrich, E. R. 
Aldrich, Eveline 
Aldrich, Minnie 
Allen, Walter 
Anderson, Annie 
Bailey, Harriet 
Bishop, Albert J. 
Bishop, Emily 
Brooks, Hannah 
Brooks, Samuel 
Burd, Thomas 
Caddie, Bessie 
Carr, Sarah A. 
Carr, William 
Carver, C. L. 
Carver, Jane 
Carver, Jennie 
Chambers, John 
Chambers, Mary A. 
Clarkson, Annie 
Claydon, Charles 
Cole, Robert 
Cole, Susan 
Cole, Thomas C. 
Collier, Elizabeth 
Cooper, Ann 



of Levings Church, 

1887-88. 

Crandall, John N 
Crandall, Mrs. John N. 
Craver, Alice 
Craver, Hattie C. 
Craver, Lewis 
Craver, P. H. 
Craver, Virginia 
Crowmer, Elizabeth 
Crowther, Annie 
Curtis, Abbie 
Curtis, Annie 
Curtis, Horace 
Curtis, Jane B. 
Curtis, Jessie M. 
Curtis, S. R. 
Dabell, Ellen 
Danks, Delia 
Danks, Frank 
Danks, John 
Danks, Richard 
De Freest, Harriet 
De Freest, Matthew 
Diggery, C. 
Diggery, John 
Diggery, Minnie 
Doll, Lucretia 
Downs, Caroline 



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251 



Downs, Flint W. 
Downs, Silas 
Dufty, Alice 
Dufty, Besey 
Dufty, David 
Dufty, John 
Dufty, Mary 
Dunbar, John 
Dunbar, Maggie 
Dunbar, Mary 
Eaton, John 
Ensign, Mary 
Ensign, Pierce 
Finkle, John 
Finkle, Mrs. John 
Frank, Catharine 
Frank, Stephen 
Frank, Leah 
French, Leah 
French, S. W. 
Gardner, Daniel 
Gardner, Dow 
Gardner, Eliza 
Gardner, Emma 
Gardner, Minnie 
Goeway, William 
Graham, Eva 
Gregg, Lizzie 
Gregg, Samuel 
Groves, Alice 



Groves, Edward 
Harris, Ida 
Harris, William M. 
Hassell, James 
Hassell, Samuel 
Hawley, Asa 
Haywood, Clara 
Haywood, Sarah 
Haywood, William 
Herriott, Alphonzo 
Herriott, Delia 
Herzog, C. J. 
Herzog, Emma L. 
Holland, Frank 
Her, Amanda B. 
Her, Edith 
Her, Eva 
Her, Irene 
Iler, Joseph H. 
Her, Lottie 
Iler, Lydia 
Iler, Mary 
Iler, Martin 
Iler, Philetus, 
Ingram, Harriet 
Job, Esther 
Johnson, Samuel 
Jones, Eliza 
Jones, Fred, 
Kirkbride, Margaret 



2 5 2 



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Kirkbride, Mary 
Kirkbride, Sarah 
Kirkbride, Wilson 
Kittridge, Clarissa 
Lewis, Abbie 
Lewis, Peter N. 
Marble, Jane 
McFarlin, Catherine 
McKay, Catherine 
McKnight, Mattie 
Merric-h, Alice A. 
Migard, John 
Millington, Margaret 
Millington, William 
Morton, Sarah 
Morton, William 
Myers, Daniel 
Osborn, Henry 
Osborn, Sarah 
Osterhout, Virginia 
Osterhout, W. A. 
Pagett, Moses 
Pagett, Mrs. Moses. 
Pennington, Ida 
Pennington, James 
Pennington, Mary 
Pennington, William 
Pitcher, George S. 
Pitcher, Martha 
Podmore, Edward 



Potter, John 
Potter, Sarah 
Potter, Sarah 
Powell, Rachel 
Price, Annie 
Price, Charles 
Price, Elizabeth 
Price, Elizabeth 
Price, Letitia 
Purdy, Jennie 
Purdy, John H. 
Randall, Gertrude 
Ratcliffe, Samuel F. 
Ratcliffe, Sarah 
Ray, Elizabeth 
Ray, James 
R.eid, Isabella 
Richardson, Phebe 
Robertson, Jessie 
Robertson, John 
Rogers, Charles 
Rogers, Maria E. 
Rowley, Sarah A. 
Shaver, Norman 
Simmons, Eliza 
Smith, Benjamin 
Smith, Catharine 
Smith, James 
Smith, Jane 
Snyder, Ida 



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Snyder, James E. 
Suydam, Henry 
Suydam, Mary 
Travell, Elsie 
Travell, Frances 
Travell, John K. 
Trotman, Ann 
Trotman, Annie 
Trotman, Richard 
Turnbull, Robert 
Warner, Jane 
Warner, Leonard J. 
Warner, Minnie 



Wendell, Ida 
Wendell, Sarah 
Whitehurst, Elizabeth 
Whitehurst, James 
Wilkinson, Mrs. E. P. 
Willis, Ambrose 
Winterbottom, Alice 
Winterbottom, George 
Wright, Jemima 
Wright, Lavina 
Wylie, Thomas 
Wylie, Mrs. Thomas 



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Levings M. E. Sunday School, 1887- 
Officers : 



Rev. C. R. Hawley, 
Joseph H. Her, - 
Sidney R. Curtis, - 
Mrs. J. H. Her, - 
Edward Podmore, - 
George E. Bray, - 
James Pennington, - 
John H. Danks, - 
William H. S. Cole, 
Sidney R. Curtis, 
Mrs. Mary J. Herriott, 
Miss Susie Shaver, 
Miss Ida Pennington, 



- Pastor. 
Superintendent. 

- ist Asst. Superintendent 
2d Asst. Superintendent 

- Secretary. 
Asst. Secretary. 

- Librarian, 
ist. Asst. Librarian. 

- 2d Asst. Librarian. 
Treasurer. 

- Superintends Infant Dept 
Asst. Supt. Infant Dept 

- Organist. 

Teachers ; 



Alphonzo Herriott, 
Moses Pagett, 
Norman Shaver, 
Mrs. Albert J. Bishop, 
Mrs. Thomas C. Cole, 
Mrs. John N. Crandall, 
Mrs. Philip H. Craver, 
Mrs. Sidney R. Curtis, 
Mrs. William Dunning, 
Mrs. Charles Edwards, 
Mrs, David Graham, 



Mrs. Samuel Kirkbride, 
Mrs. George Kittridge, 
Mrs. Peter N. Lewis, 
Mrs. James Pennington, 
Mrs. John H. Purdy, 
Mrs. James E. Snyder 
Mrs. James Smith, 
Mrs. John K. Travell, 
Mrs. E. P. Wilkinson, 
Mrs. Martin Williams, 
Mrs. George Winterbottora 



METHODISM IN TROY. 257 

Official Board ofGr ace (Vail Ave.) Church. 

1887-88. 

Rev. J. L. Atwell. - - Preacher in Charge. 
J. Nelson Wooster, - Local Preacher. 

Class Leaders : 
Justin Ao Ames, Z. B. Davis, 

George F. Bond, Ira P. Humphrey, 

Lorenzo Burch, E. B. Sherwood, 

J. Nelson Wooster, 

Stewards : 
Chester Bascom, J. Glasson, 

Wells Bennett, I. Nichols, 

George W. Carnrick, Albert E. Palmer, 

Zerah B. Davis, Fred D. Vandervoort, 

E. Foster, Walter Wheeler, M. 

E. A. Fry, William Wheeler, 

Henry E. Young. 

E. A. Fry, - - - Recording Steward 

George W. Carnrick, - - District Steward 

Trustees : 
Justin A. Ames, Peter Carnrick, 

H. Clay Bascom, Benjamin Cooper, 

George E. Blake, Nanning Lonsing, 

Urwin D. Sterry. 

H. Clay Bascom, Sunday-school Superintendent 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Members of Grace (Vail Avenue) Church, 

1887-88. 



Abrams, Jane 
Abrams, Louisa 
Adams, Joseph E. 
Allen, Ida 
Ames, Frank W. 
Ames, Justin A. 
Ames, Lydia A. 
Anderson. Mary 
Anthony, Celinda 
Anthony, William A. 
Armstrong, Annie 
Armstrong, Mamie 
Armstrong, Mary E. 
Armstrong, William 
Armstrong, Willie 
Atwell, Carrie W. 
Atwell, Richard W, 
Augur, Alida 
Bartholomew, Julia 
Bartholomew, William 
Bartlett, Annie E. 
Bartlett, Arthur 
Bartlett, Edward 
Bartlett, Lillie 



Bascom, Bertha A. 
Bascom, Chester 
Bascom, Ellen Forbes 
Bascom, George Co 
Bascom, Helen A. 
Bascom, H. Clay 
Bascom, Jessie L. 
Bascom, Laura 
Bascom, Lucy 
Bassler, Eva 
Beckwith, George 
Beckwith, Jennie 
Beckwith, Nora C. 
Belding, Mary A. 
Bell, Amy 
Bell, John 
Bennett, Electa 
Bennett, Ruth 
Bennett, Wells 
Bentley, Hattie 
Bishop, Cora A. 
Bissell, Mary J. 
Bissell, Sarah Ann 
Bissell, William 



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259 



Blake, Eva 
Blake, George E. 
Blake, Mary 
Bond, Alice M. 
Bond, Bessie 
Bond, George F. 
Bonesteel, Jeremiah 
Bonesteel, Louisa A. 
Bout, Joan 
Bout, John 
Bout, Ralph 
Bowers, Harriet 
Bowers, Seneca D. 
Bowman, Emma A, 
Boycott, Catherine F. 
Boycott, Rosanna F. 
Boycott, William 
Carlton, Jane M. 
Carnrick, Diana L. 
Carnrick, Elizabeth 
Carnrick, Ella A. 
Carnrick, George W. 
Carnrick, Peter 
Carr, Caroline 
Carrier, Addie 
Carrier, George 
Chappie, Horace 
Chappie, Sarah 
Cheles, Hannah 
Chesbro, Albert 



Chesbro, Amelia 
Chesbro, Emma 
Chesbro, Nellie 
Christie, William 
Clark, Alida 
Clark, Calvin H. 
Clark, Ella 
Clark, Emma 
Clark, Maria 
Clark, Myron 
Clark, Stella 
Clary, Belsora 
Cleminshaw, George 
Combs, Caroline 
Combs, Charles 
Combs, Susan 
Combs, Susie 
Combs, William 
Connor, Mary 
Cookingham, Elizabeth 
Cookingham, John M. 
Coonradt, Charles M. 
Coonradt, Jonas 
Coonradt, Sarah S. 
Cooper, Anna F. 
Cooper, Benjamin 
Cooper, Lucy M. 
Cottrell, Eliza 
Crandall, Ella M. 
Crandall, Theodore 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Davenport, S. 
Davis, Mary A. 
Davis, Zerah B. 
Davison, Ellen C. 
Davison, Hugh B. 
Davison, John J. 
Davison, Mary E. 
Didlock, Bertha 
Dowd, Helen M. 
Dummer, H. B. 
Dummer, Sylvia S. 
Duncan, George H. 
Duncan, Mary E. B. 
Dusenberry, Alice 
Dusenberry, Eddie 
Dusenberry, Kate 
Dutcher, Anna 
Dutcher, Jennie 
Dutcher, Oscar C. 
Dwyer, Alonzo 
Elkenburgh, Berdella 
Emerson, George L. 
Emerson, Ida May 
Emerson, Nettie 
Engel, Ida 
Engel, William H. 
Falkner, Sarah 
Fallon, Henry D. 
Flynn, Mary 
Ford, D. L. 



Ford, Jane M. 
Fosmyer, Clara 
Foster, Egbert 
Foster, Kate 
Frank, David 
Frank, Mary E. 
Fry, Edwin A. 
Fry, Kate 
Fry, Nettie 
Gates, Addie 
Gates, John F. 
Gillette, Burt W. 
Gillies, Alexander 
Gillies, Mary 
Glasson, Agnes A. 
Glasson, Eddie J. 
Glasson, John 
Glasson, William Ho 
Green, Charles D. 
Green, Henry L, 
Green, Jennie 
Green, jr., Joseph 
Green, Rosa 
Greenwood, Mary 
Greenwood, William H. H. 
Gritmon, Alice 
Gritmon, Walter 
Groat, Cecilia 
Groat, Charles 
Guenther, Charles 



METHODTSM IN TROY. 



261 



Guenther, Naomi 
Haight, Frank 
Hamer, Angelina 
Hancox, Elizabeth 
Hancox, Estella 
Hancox, Isaac 
Hancox, Joseph 
Hancox, Joseph H 
Hancox, Lizzie 
Hancox, Nellie 
Hancox, Rebecca 
Hancox, William E. 
Harmans, Frank 
Harmans, Libbie 
Hart, Charles W. 
Hart, Harriet 
Hart, Mertie 
Haviland, Georgiana 
Hawley, Cora 
Hawley, Kate 
Hawley, Marion 
Hennessy, Mary 
Herrick, Georgiana 
Herrick, Alice 
Herring, Carrie E. 
Herring, Florence 
Herring, Henry E. 
Herring, Sarah E. 
Herrington, Henry 
Herrington, Orlena 



Hodges, George C. 
Holmes, Addie 
Holmes, Edward 
Holt, Kittie 
Homer, William K. 
Horning, Mary 
Horton, Alice 
Horton, Eva C. 
Howard, Caroline 
Howard, Kate 
Howard, Harriet H. 
Howe, Philander A. 
Hull, Mary C. 
Humphrey, Ira P. 
Humphrey, Jessie 
Hunt, Hattie 
Huyck, Anna F. 
Huyck, Francis 
Huyck, Jennie N. 
Imeson, Alida 
Jones, Sarah 
Jordan, William 
Kendall, Clara 
Kenter, Sarah J. 
Kling, Margaret E. 
Knauf, Hattie 
Kronick, Emma 
Kronick, Mary, 
Kronick, John M. 
Lake, Laura 



262 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Lansing, Anna J. 
Lansing, Mary A. 
Lansing, Nanning 
Lasher, William P 
Lazarus, Ada 
Lee, Calista 
Lee, Minnie 
Lee, Thomas 
Litty, Frank 
Litty, John 
Litty, Sarah 
Lock wood, Etta 
Loomis, Georgiana 
Lowe, Eliza 
Lynk, Nancy 
Lynk, William 
Mace, Anna 
Mace, Grace V. 
Mace, Ida E. 
Mace, Jessie G. 
Mace, John 
Mace, Maggie L. 
Mambert, Harrison 
Mambert, Lottie 
Mann, Fanny M. 
Mann, Maria 
Mann, O. 

McChesney, Hester 
McCrea, David N. 
McCrea, Jane 



McCrea, William 
McDonald, John 
McDonald, Mary 
McGill, Anna 
McGill, James 
McGill, Susan 
McKeever, Elizabeth 
McKeever, William 
McKinney, John H. 
McKinney, Joseph 
McKinney, Susan 
McLean, Elizabeth 
McLean, George 
McNiven, Jane H. 
McNiven, Malcom 
McPherson, Catharine 
Mead, Mary 
Mead, Zechariah 
Mealey, Milford 
Mealey, Susan 
Mickle, Alsada 
Mickle, Annie 
Mickle, Hattie 
Mickle, Isaac 
Mickle, Jennie 
Mickle, Kate E. 
Mickle, Mary 
Middleton, Emma F. 
Middleton, Maggie S. 
Middleton, Sophia N. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



26.1 



Miller, Emma 
Miller, Jennie 
Milliman, Alida 
Mix, Carrie 
Mix, Harriet R. 
Mix, Silas C. 
Moon, Jennie 
Moon, John E. 
Moon, Sarah J. 
Moore, Lillian 
Morris, Sarah 
Morse, Caroline 
Morse, Lewis T. 
Mosenus, Henry M. 
Myers, Carrie 
Neal, Marietta 
Nessels, Ratie 
Nichols, Elizabeth H. 
Nichols, Emma 
Nichols, Isaac 
Nichols, Ruby 
Nickerson, Hattie 
Nickerson, Nettie E. 
Niles, Irene 
Norsworthy, Emma 
Northrup, Addie S. 
O'Reilly, Ella 
Osborne, Hettie 
Osborne, Jane D. 
Osborne, John 



Ostrander, Gideon 
Ostrander, Sarah A. 
Palmer, Albert E. 
Palmer, Emma 
Palmer, Harriet 
Palmer, James 
Parkiss, Lottie M. 
Pasko, Mary 
Paul, Bertha 
Paul, Catharine 
Paul, Philip 
Peck, Athelia N. 
Peck, William E. 
Philp, Helen M. 
Pilling, Elizabeth 
Pinney, Ann E. 
Pinney, Cyrus 
Plumb, Lena 
Plumb, Walter D, 
Pollock, Jane 
Pollock, John A. 
Pollock, jr., John A. 
Prankard, Carrie 
Prankard, Frances 
Pratt, Helen F. 
Pratt, Lulu May 
Proper, Cornelia 
Quackenbush, Alice 
Ouackenbush, Emma E. 
Raibdey, Christopher 



264 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Raibdey, Dora 
Raibdey, Frank 
Raibdey, Jacob 
Raibdey, May 
Raibdey, William 
Reed, Luther E. 
Reed, Martha J. 
Rhul, Columbia 
Richardson, Elizabeth M. 
Richardson, Lena M. 
Ridgeway, Albion 
Ridgeway, Emma J. 
Ridgeway, Joseph 
Ridgeway, William 
Rifenbergh, Frances H. 
Rifenbergh, Willis B. 
Rogers, Cornelia 
Rogers, S. Frank 
Rowe, Ella 
Ruth, Carrie 
Ruth, George A 
Rynders, Harriet E. 
Rynders, Isaiah 
Rynders, Lottie 
Salisbury, Sarah E. 
Sanderson, Emma 
Sayers, Emma J. 
Sayers, Charles J. 
Seller, Bertha 
Sendell, Emma J. 



Shafer, C. E. 
Sharp, Libbie 
Shaver, Margaret A. 
Sheffer, Chauncey P. 
Sheffer, Jennie 
Sherman, Sarah J. 
Sherwood, E. B. 
Shires, Hattie, 
Shires, Rebecca 
Simmons, Annie 
Simmons, Lizzie 
Skane, Patrick F. 
Smith, Anna 
Smith, Benjamin R. 
Smith, Ida M. 
Smith, Jennie 
Smith, John 
Smith, Mary 
Smith, Mary 
Smith, Susannah 
Snyder, Mary 
Southwick, I. W. 
Sterry, Eva 
Sterry, Nancy 
Sterry, Urwin D. 
Stevens, Mary A. 
Stevens, Mary E. 
Taylor, Anna A. 
Taylor, Ella J. 
Taylor, George 



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265 



Taylor, William G. 
Thorn, Salina 
Thornton, Angelica 
Thornton, William H. 
Titus, Hattie 
Titus, Thomas A. 
Tyler, Perry D. 
Uline, Jonathan N. 



Wheeler, George 
Wheeler, Grace 
Wheeler, Lafayette 
Wheeler, Laura 
Wheeler, Mary 
Wheeler, Maryett 
Wheeler, Orlin 
Wheeler, Sarah 



Van Benschoten, Elizabeth Wheeler, Walter M. 
Van Benschoten, Jacob Wheeler, William 



Vandervoort, Abbie J. 
Vandervoort, Adrian 
Vandervoort, Anna 
Vandervoort, Charles 
Vandervoort, Fred. D. 
Van Deusen, John P. 
Van Deusen, Mary E. 
Van Deusen, William 
Van Vleck, Elizabeth W. 
Van Vorst, Cyntha 
Van Vorst, Juliette 
Vines, Mary 
W T ard, Annie 
Ward, Charles 
Warwick, Emily 
Weaver, Elizabeth 
Wheat, Esther A. 
Wheat, Theressa 
Wheeler, Addie 
Wheeler, Dennis 



Whitehouse, John H. 
Whitehouse, Mary A. 
Wickwire, Margaret 
Willets, Daniel 
Willets, Eliza 
Willets, Hannah 
Willets, John 
Willets, John H. 
Willets, Job 
Willets, Lizzie 
Willets, Martha 
Willets, Mary A. 
Willets, Mary 
Willets, Rosa 
Willets, Thomas 
Williams, Minnie 
Willis, Margaret 
Willis, Mary J. 
Windsor, Blanche 
Windsor, William 



266 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Windsor, Zerina Wooster, Minnie K. 

Winne, Ann Eliza Wooster, Nettie, 

Winne, Daniel R. Yetts, Nellie J. 

Wood, Hattie E. Young, Annie M. 

Wood, Thomas Young, Henry E. 
Wooster, J. Nelson 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



267 



Gr ace (Vail Ave.) M. E. Sunday School, 1887-88. 



Officers 



Rev. J. L. Atwell, 
H. Clay Bascom, 
George W. Carnrick, - 
Mrs. Mary Greenwood, 
J. Herbert Blake, 
Walter D. Plumb, - 
Nanning Lansing, 
George H. Bristol, - 
F. Hermans, 
Mrs. Orlin Wheeler. 
John Davison, 
Joseph Hancox, ) 
Luther E. Reed, 
Abram Lansing, \- 
WilliamE. Hancox, | 
Merritt Horton, 
Mrs. Peter Carnrick, 
Mrs. J. T. Quackenbush, 
Mrs. Electa Bennett, - 
Mrs. George A. Ruth, 
Mattie Mickle, - 



Pastor. 

Superintendent. 

Asst. Superintendent. 

Female Asst. Supt. 

Secretary. 

Asst. Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Prest. Missio'ry Society, 

Chorister. 

Organist. 

Librarian. 



Asst. Librarians. 



Supt. of Primary Dp 
Asst.Supt. Primary Dp 
Asst.Supt.Primary Dp 
Secretary Primary Dp 
Organist Primary Dp 



Teachers 



Rev. J. L. Atwell, 
Chester Bascom, 
William Bissell, 
George E. Blake, 
W. H. Brown, 
Mr. John Mace, 
A. E. Palmer, 
J. Nelson Wooster, 
Annie Armstrong, 
Anna Atwell, 
Jessie L. Bascom, 
Mrs. H. C. Bascom, 
Mrs. George E. Blake, 
Phoebe Brittle, 



Mrs. W. H. Brown, 
Mrs. Helen M. Dowd, 
Mrs. E. Foster, 
Lizzie Hancox, 
Mrs. Mary C. Hull, 
Jennie N. Huyck, 
Emma Kronick, 
Mrs. N. Lansing, 
Ratie Nessels, 
Mrs. McPherson, 
Mrs. Helen M. Philp, 
Mary Smith, 
Cynthia Van Vorst, 
Minnie K. Wooster. 



268 methodism in troy. 

Members of Official Board of the First 
German Church, 1887-88. 

Officers : 

Rev. W. H. Kurth, - Preacher in Charge, 1887-88. 
Rev. Fred'k W. Boese, - Preacher in Charge, 1888-89. 

F. Beiermeister, sr., - Local Preacher. 

Wo Hess, sr., ) 

\ - hxhorters. 

G. J. Xander, ) 

Class Leaders : 

F. Beiermeister, sr., Rev. W. H. Kurth, 

W. Hess, sr., G. J. Xander. 

Stewards : 

F. Eppelle, sr., J. Keller, 

A. Fischer, H. Kreiss, 

H. Hass, H. Schmah, 

W. Hess, sr., H. Warnken. 

Trustees : 

F. Beiermeister, sr., H. Kreiss, 

F. Eppelle, L. Richter 

W. Hess, sr., P. Ruth, 

J. Keller, L. Schaal, 

G. J. Xander. 

Julius Keller, Sunday-school Superintendent. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



271 



Members of the First German Church ; 

1887-88. 



Bachmann, Julia 
Bantel, Emma 
Bantel, Louise 
Beiermeister, Andreas 
Beiermeister, Anna 
Beiermeister, Barbara 
Beiermeister, Caroline 
Beiermeister, Eva 
Beiermeister, Friederich 
Beiermeister, John 
Berger, Christina 
Bethmann, Elisabeth 
Boehm, August 
Boehm, Auguste 
Boehm, Bertha 
Bosse, Catharine 
Bosse, Kilian 
Buechel, Conrad 
Buechel, M. 
Dock, Christian 
Dock, Dora 
Dock, Elisabeth 
Dock, Lena 
Dock, Michael 



Dreger, Anna 
Eppelle, sr., Auguste 
Eppelle, jr., Auguste 
Eppelle, sr., Frank 
Eppelle, jr., Frank 
Etschel, Elisabeth 
Etschel, Elonora 
Feininger, Wilhelmina 
Finder, Lydia 
Finder, William 
Fischer, Albert 
Fischer, Friederike 
Foungart, Catharine 
Gaige, August 
Gaige, Louisa 
Gall, Heinrich 
Gall, Maria 
Gapp, Friedrich 
Gapp, Louisa 
Gauss, Catharine 
Glominski, Louisa 
Grouer, Heinrich 
Grouer, Maria 
Gussmann, Ernstine 



272 



METHODISM IN TROY 



Gussmann, Heinrich 
Hamele, David 
Hamele, Friederike 
Hass, Emilie 
Hass, Heinrich 
Heineke, Richard 
Helbling, Emilie 
Hermann, Julia 
Herter, Louis 
Herter, M. 
Hess, Alvina 
Hess, sr., Wendel 
Hess, jr., Wendel 
HofTmeister, Heinrich 
Huff, Margarethe 
Keller, Julias 
Keller, Maria 
Kirchfeld, Amanda 
Kirchfeld, Barbara 
Kreiss, Caroline 
Kreiss, Elisabeth 
Kreiss, sr., Heinrich 
Kreiss, jr., Heinrich 
Kuehn, Ludwina 
Kurth, Sophia 
Kurth, William J. 
Lucht, Julia 
Meyer, Elisabeth 
Meyer, Jakob 
Meyer, Margarethe 



Milenz, Salome 
Miller, Dorothea 
Miller, John 
Moeske, Albert 
Moeske, Anna 
Muench, Mary 
Nehrdich, Johanna 
Nehrdich, John 
Noll, Carl C. 
Noll, Ernstine 
Prell, Henriette 
Rabe, Martha 
Raisch, Maria 
Renz, Christina 
Richter, Emilie 
Richter, Ida 
Richter, Louis 
Roeck, Ernst 
Roeck, Maria 
Rosa, Catharine 
Rosa, Moritz 
Ruth, Caroline 
Ruth, Peter 
Schaal, Christina 
Schaal, Louis 
Schaibel, Adam 
Schaibel, Anna 
Schaibel, Christian 
Schaibel, Maria 
Schilling, Elisabeth 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



273 



Schlachter, Elias 
Schlachter, Helene 
Schmah, Heinrich 
Schmah, Mina 
Schmidt, Rosolie 
Scholl, Caroline 
Schoneig, Carl 
Schulz, Anna 
Schultz, Gottlob 
Seewald, Anna 
Seewald, Carl 
Seewald, Elisabeth 
Seewald, Katie 
Seidel, Rev. J. F. 
Seidel, Wilhelmine 
Seissing, Lena 
Severin, Louisa 



Stockly, Anna M. 
Stockly, Elisabeth 
Teuscher, Jacobine 
Von Eck, Simon 
Wack, Anna 
Wacker, Charles 
Wacker, Elisabeth 
Wagner, Maria 
Warnken, Georgiana 
Warnken, Hermann 
Weibel, Eliza 
Weibel, John 
Xander, Friederike 
Xander, Gottlob J. 
Xander, Magdalene 
Zahn, Ida 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Sunday School of the First German M. E. 
Church, 1887-88. 





Officers : 


Rev. W. H. Kurth, 


Pastor. 


Julius Keller, 


Superintendent. 


F. Beiermeister, sr., 


Asst. Superintendent. 


Henry Gall, 


Secretary. 


John Beiermeister, 


Treasurer. 


Henry Kreiss, jr., 


Librarian. 




Teachers : 


Andrew Beiermeister 


, Hermann Warnken, 


Frank Eppelle, 


Gottlob J. Xander, 


Fred. Gapp, 


Anna M. Beiermeister, 


Henry Hass, 


Emma Bantel, 


Wendel Hess, sr., 


Auguste Eppelle, 


Wendel, Hess, jr., 


Libbie Etschel, 


Henry Hoffmeister, 


Amanda Kirchfeld, 


Henry Kreiss, sr., 


Carrie Kreiss, 


Louis Richter, 


Anna Schulz, 


Henry Schm'ah, 


Anna Seewald. 



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277 



Members of the Official Board of Zion 
Church, 1887-88. 



Rev. Samuel C. Birchmore, Preacher in charge, 1887-88. 
Rev. George E. Smith, - Preacher in charge, 1888-89. 



Class Leaders : 
C. T. Gidney, William A. Scott. 

Stewards : 
Richard Kelly, William Kemp. 



Trustees : 



William S. Archer, 
John H. Bishop, 
William E. H. Bishop, 
James H. Davis, 
Charles T. Gidney, 
John H. Hooper, 



Perry M. Jackson, 
Hansel Kemp, 
John H. Kemp, 
William Kemp, 
Philip Owens, 
William H. Pettiford. 



Trustees in Trust: 
J. Hillman, E. O. House, H. C. Curtis. 



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METHODISM IN TROY 



Members of Zion Church. 
1887-88. 



Anderson, Mary 
Anthony, Andrew 
Archer, Nancy 
Birchmore, Mary E. 
Bishop, Elizabeth M. 
Bishop, Flora 
Bishop, H. E. 
Bishop, John H, 
Bishop, Sarah M. 
Bishop, William E. H. 
Brown, Anna 
Butler, Hannah 
Champlain, Priscilla 
Chew, Daniel B. 
Chew, Mary J. 
Christian, Mary 
Churchill, Alice 
Davis, James H. 
Davis, Louisa J. 
Demery, Sabrina 
Dolby, James 
Ellick, Mary V. 
Gidney, Charles T. 
Gidney, Harriet A. 



Hatch, Louisa 
Helms, Francis 
Jackson, Hettie A, 
Jackson, Levinia 
Jackson, Martha 
Jackson, Matilda 
Jackson, Perry M. 
Jones, Sarah 
Kelly, Matilda 
Kelly, Nancy 
Kelly, Richard 
Kemp, Hansel 
Kemp, Indianna 
Kemp, John H. 
Kemp, Lucy 
Kemp, Margaret 
Kemp, Marietta 
Kemp, Nancy 
Kemp, Rosa 
Kemp, Sally 
Kemp, Sarah 
Kemp, William 
Lindsay; Sarah 
Livingston, Levinia 



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279 



McClellan, Catharine 
McDougall, Charlotte 
McDougall, R. H. 
Mesick, Rosannah 
Miller, Lucy 
Moore, Susan 
Parker, Delia 
Peterman, Ida M. 
Peterson, Mary J. 
Rice, Margaret 
Schoolmacher, Nettie 
Scott, Mary A. 
Scott, William A. 
Simmons, Cecelia 
Simmons, Theodore 
Simms, George J. 



Smalley, Phebia 
Smith, Birdie 
Survoy, Ellen 
Thomas, Emma 
Thompson, Phebe A. 
Thompson, Samuel 
Thompson, Sarah B. 
Titus, John F. 
Van Buren, Florence 
Van Buren, Estelle 
Van Slyck, Samuel 
Van Slyck, Sarah 
Williams, Susan H. 
Winfield, Charles 
Witbeck, Mary J . 



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METHODISM IN TROY. 



Sunday School of a M. 

1887-88. 



E. Zion Church, 



Officers : 

Rev. Samuel C. Birchmore, Superintendent. 
Miss Emma Burtis, - 



Andrew Kelly, 

Mrs. Mary E. Birchmore, 

Max. R. Lippin, 

Nellie Birchmore, 

Perry M. Jackson, 

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bishop, Organist. 



- Asst. Superintendent. 
Secretary. 

- Treasurer. 



Librarians. 
Chorister. 



Teachers: 

Rev. Samuel C. Birchmore, 
James H. Davis, 
Mrs. Mary E. Birchmore, 
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bishop, 
Miss Emma Burtis, 
Mrs. Martha Jackson. 



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282 METHODISM TN TROY. 

DECEASED METHODIST MINISTERS WHO HAVE PREACHED IN TROY, 

(Represented in the opposite Engraving.) 

i. Rev. Lorenzo Barber, 1861, Albia. 

2. Rev. M. Alverson Senter, 1868-70, Third Street. 

3. Rev. George J. Brown, 1877-79, State Street 

4. Rev. E. S. Stout, 1859, Levings Chapel. 

5. Rev. Zebulon Phillips, i860, Levings Chapel. 

6. Rev. Stephen D. Brown, 1851-52, 1864, State St. 

1 853-54, N. Second Street. 

7. Rev. Benjamin Pomeroy, 1848, North Second Street. 

8. Rev. Ira G. Bidwell, 1860-61, State Street. 

9. Rev. Seymour Coleman, 1853-54, Congress Street. 





n a a 


1861-62, North Troy. 


10. 


Rev. Lorenzo Dow, 


1798, Troy. 


1 1. 


Rev. Elijah Chichester, 


1805, Troy. 


12. 


Rev. J. Newland Maffitt 


, 1845, (Revival), State St. 


13. 


Rev. Ensign Stover, 


1865-67, Congress Street. 




a <« << 


1868, Vail Avenue. 


14. 


Rev. Ephraim Goss, 


1 85 1 -52, Congress Street. 



1859-60, Third Street. 

1 5. Rev. Samuel Howe, 1802, Troy. 

16. Rev. Tobias Spicer, 181 5- 16, State Street. 

" " " 1 852, Levings Chapel. 

17. Rev. Desevignia Starks, 1860-63, P. E. Troy Dist. 

18. Rev. Allen Steele, 1847-48, State Street. 

19. Rev. Noah Levings, 1834-35, 1842, State St. 

1839, North Second St. 

20. Rev. Truman Seymour, 1836-37, State Street. 

21. Rev. Sanford Washburn, 1846-47, 1860-61, N. 2d St. 

22. Rev. William Bedell, 1874 76, Levings Chapel. 

23. Rev. Berea O. Meeker, i85 1-52, North Second St. 

24. Rev. Alfred A. Farr, 1849-50, Congress Street. 

25. Rev. E.Wentworth,D.D., 1862-64, North Second St. 

i865-67, State Street 

26. Rev. David P. Hulburd, 1861-62, Congress Street 




r -4 4k» 



Deceased Methodist Ministers. 

Formerly preaching in Troy. N. Y. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



2»5 



NAMES OF DECEASED MINISTERS WHO HAVE STATEDLY PREACHED IN TROY 


Arnold, Smith died 


March 16 


1839, ag 


ed 7^. 


Barber, Lorenzo " 


April 8, 


1882, < 


■ 61. 


Bates, Merritt 


August 23, 


1869, < 


' 63. 


Bedell, W. 


January 27, 


1881, 


' 60. 


Bidwell, Ira G. 


December 25, 


1878, ' 


4 43- 


Bigelow, Noah 


July 1. 


1835, ' 


• 42. 


Brown, George J. 


December 1, 


1880, 


' 41. 


Brown, S. D. 


February 19, 


i875> ' 


< 5 9 . 


Chichester. Elijah 


August 2 1 , 


i855, ' 


1 77- 


Clark, Laban " 


November 28, 


1868, 


' 90. 


Coates, Michael " 


August 1 , 


1814, " • 


4 47. 


Coleman, S. 


January 23, 


1877, ' 


' 82. 


Covell, jr., James 


May 1 5. 


i8 4 5, 


' 49- 


Dow, Lorenzo 




1834, ' 


1 57- 


Dungy, John 








Eames, Henry " 


September 6, 


1851, ' 


' 77- 


Emerson, Oliver 


April 22, 


i8 5 3< ' 


4 39. 


Ensign. Datus 




1853^ ' 


' /o. 


Farr, A. A. 


November 4, 


1874, ' 


< 64. 


Ferguson, S. D. " 


December 30, 


i855, • 


4 57- 


Garvin, A. W. 


June 19. 


1874- 4 


' 61. 


Goodsell, Buel 


May 4, 


1863, • 


4 73- 


Goss, E. 


November 6, 


1866, 


' 72. 


Griffin. Benjamin " 


June 20, 


1861, 


■ 69. 


Hall, B. M. 


February 22, 


1886, 


' 83. 


Howe, Samuel " 


February 16. 


1858, ■ 


4 7^- 


Hulburd, D. P. 


February 14, 


1885, 


< 69. 


Johnson, Albinus 


March 2. 


i860, 


4 37- 


Levings, Noah 


January 9, 


1849, 


4 53. 


Luckey, Samuel 


October 11, 


1869, 


4 7^- 


Lytle. David 


October 13, 


1869, 


' 43- 


Maffitt, J. N. 




i85o, 


« 56. 


Martindale, Stephen " 


May 2 3 . 


i860. 


4 73- 



286 METHODISM IN TROY. 






Meeker, B. 0. 


died January 


n 
J' 


i873- 


aged 56. 


Merwin, Samuel 


" January 


i3< 


J.839. 


" 62, 


Oakley, P. C. 










Osbon, Abiathar M 


" August 


7- 


1882, 


" 74- 


Osgood, W. B. 


August 


17, 


1880, 


" 36. 


Pease, Lewis 


September 5, 


1844. 


- 58. 


Phillips, Z. 


February 


8, 


1886, 


- 78. 


Phoebus, W. 


(< November 


9. 


1831, 


- 78. 


Pomeroy, B. 


" May 


12, 


1880. 


" 74- 


Ransom. H. W. 


" March 


26, 


1867, 


" 56. 


Ross, William 


" 








Sandford, P. P. 


January 


14, 


1857. 


" 75- 


Senter, M. A. 


'■' February- 


1, 


1876. 


" 29. 


Seymour, Truman 


No vember 


15^ 


1874- 


" 75- 


Sherman, Charles 


" March 


10, 


1844. 


" 41. 


Smith, James M. 










Spicer, Tobias 


November 1 3, 


1862, 


" 74. 


Starks, D. 


" October 


12, 


1887, 


" 79- 


Starks, H. L. 


June 


22, 


1882. 


" 8:. 


Stebbins, L. D. 










Steele, A. 


" January 


14. 


i873. 


" 64. 


Stillman, S. L. 


" April 


2, 


1869, 


" 74- 


Stout. E. S. 


August 


0' 


1859, 


" 47- 


Stover. E. 


" May 


8, 


1871. 


" 56. 


Stratton, John B. 


" June 


20, 


1863, 


" 78. 


Tackaberry, John 










Vanderlip, Elias 


September 


0' 


1848, 


" 84. 


Washburn, S. 


« July 


23- 


1885, 


'" 73- 


Weaver, John M. 


- May 


12, 


1872, 


•• 80. 


Wells, G. C, 










Wentworth, E. 


- May 


25- 


1886, 


M 73- 


White, Myron, 


" June 


2. 


1887, 


" 79- 


Whiteside, Edwin 










Williams, S. P. 


September 


H' 


1874/ 


" 65. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



287 



Ministers 


and Membership of the 


Troy 


Methodist 


Churches from 1797 to 


1888. 

Members 


1797, M. E. C. 


of Troy, - - - 


and Pn>. 
" 13 


1800, 


1 Michael Coates, - 


30 


1802, 


Elias Vanderlip, 




1805, 


Elijah Chichester, 


- 7 


1806, 


4 Datus Ensign, 




1807, 


' Laban Clark, - 
* Henry Eames, 


- 13 


1809, 


' James M. Smith, 




1810, 


William Phoebus, 
Lewis Pease, 




1811, 


' Smith Arnold, 




1812, 


Peter P. Sandford, 




1813, 


1 Laban Clark, 


i35 


1814, 


' Laban Clark, 


- 129 


i8i5, 


Tobias Spicer, - 


107 


1816, 


Tobias Spicer, 


- 230 


1817, 


' Samuel Luckey, 


250 


1818, 


Samuel Luckey, 


- 239 


1819, 


' William Ross, - 


384 


1820, 


' William Ross, 


- 256 


1821, 


' Benjamin Griffin, 


225 


1822, 


1 Benjamin Griffin, - 


21 I 


1823, 


' Noah Bieelow, - 


2 20 


1824, 


' James M. Smith, - 


- 25O 


1825, 


James M. Smith, 


3 l 9 


1826, 


Stephen Martindale, 


- 376 


1827, 


Stephen Martindale, - 


437 



288 METHODISM IN TROY. 

1828, M. E. C. of Troy, Samuel Merwin, - - 515 

1829, " " Samuel Merwin, 

John Tackaberry, - - 454 

1830, " • John B. Stratton, 

Abiathar M. Osbon, 487 

1 83 1, " " John B. Stratton, 

14 of Albia, Abiathar M. Osbon, - 682 
" African, John Dungy, 

1832, " Troy, Buel Goodsell, 

Albia, E. F. Whiteside, 880 

African, John Dungy, 

1833, " Troy, Buel Goodsell, 577 

Albia, E. F. Whiteside, 109 686 
African, John Dungy, 

1834, " Troy, Noah Levings, - 512 

African, John Dungy, 

1835, State Street, Noah Levings, - S55 
N. Second St., S. D. Ferguson, 

1836, State St., Truman Seymour, 
N. Second St., Charles Sherman, 

1837, State St., Truman Seymour, 
N. Second St., Charles Sherman, 

1838, State St., S. Remington, 
N. Second St., P. C. Oakley, 

1839, State St., S. Remington, 
N. Second St., Noah Levings, 

1840, State St., Charles P. Clarke. 
N. Second St., H. L. Starks, 

1 84 1, State St., Charles P. Clarke, 
N. Second St., H. L. Starks, 



290 




218 


508 


350 




313 


663 


410 




309 


779 


443 




400 


843 


492 




520 


101 2 


452 




5 60 


IOI2 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



2S9 



1842, 

1844, 



1845, 



1146, 



1847, 



1849, 



i85o, 



State St., 

N. Second St., 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Zion, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Zion, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Third St., 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Third and Cong, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Third and Cong, 

Zion, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Third and Cong, 

Zion, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 



Noah Levin^s, 
Merritt Bates, 
James Co veil, jr., 
Charles Sherman, 
James Covel, jr., 
John W. Lindsay, 
Stephen L. Stillman, 
Richard Noyes, 
Luman A. Sandford, 
Stephen L. Stillman, 
Richard Noyes, 
Luman A. Sandford, 
A. W. Garvin, 
S. Washburn, 
O. Emerson, 

A. Steele, 

S. Washburn, 
, E. Noble, 
Allen Steele. 

B. Pomeroy, 
A. W. Garvin, 

, E. Noble, 

R. Noyes, 

Z. N. Lewis, 

W. A. Miller, 
, A. A. Farr, 

L. Marshall, 

R. Noyes, 

Z. N. Lewis, 

W. A. Miller, 



454 

5i6 970 

52 3 

640 1 1 63 

476 

476 952 

556 

510 1066 

470 

487 957 

425 

1 1 2 904 
446 

374 

113 933 

436 
384 

1 1 5 935 

332 



■ 61 



290 METHODISM IN TROY. 





Congress St., 


A. A. Farr, 


149 




Third St., 


C. R. Ford, 


44 


i85i, 


State St.. 


S. D. Brown, 


286 




N. Second St., 


B. O. Meeker, 


319 




Congress St., 


E. Goss, 


204 




Third St. and 




5o 




Levings Chapel, J. W. Belknap, 


40 


i852, 


State St., 


S. D. Brown, 


309 




N. Second St., 


B. O. Meeker, 


400 




Congress St., 


E. Goss, 


220 




Third St., 


J. W. Belknap, 


j 180 




Levings Chapel, 


T. Spicer, 


i85 3 , 


State St., 


Lester Janes, 


3i7 




N. Second St., 


S. D. Brown, 


412 




Congress St., 


S. Coleman, 


241 




Third St., 


John M, Weaver 


80 




Lev. Chap., Alb. 


, Aaron Hall 


136 


1854, 


State St. 


H. W. Ransom, 


328 




N. Second St. 


S. D. Brown, 


423 




Congress St., 


S. Coleman, 


222 




Third St., 


J. Hall, 


60 




Levings Chapel 








and Albia, 


A. Hall, 


162 


i855, 


State St., 


H. W. Ransom, 


343 




N. Second St., 


L. D. Stebbins, 


414 




Congress St., 


H. Blanchard, 


22 1 




Third St., 


M. B. Mead, 


58 




Levings Chapel 








and Albia, 


J. S. Hart, 


119 




North Troy, 


Reuben Gregg, 





886 



899 



1 109 



1186 



1195 



1155 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



291 



i856, 


State St., 


S. Parks, 


353 




N. Second St., 


L. D. Stebbins, 


421 




Congress St., 


H. Blanchard, 


230 




Third St., 


E. Foster, 


77 




Levings Chapel 








and Albia, 


J. S. Hart, 


161 




North Troy, 




5o 


i%57> 


State St., 


S. Parks, 


309 




N. Second St., 


A. Johnson, 


360 




Congress St., 


C. F. Burdick, 


224 




Third St, 


D. W. Dayton, 


100 




Levings Chapel 








and Albia, 


S. Hewes, 


T ->5 
1 3 J 




North Troy, 


Homer Eaton, 






German, 


F. W. Dinger, 


32 




Zion, 


John A. Williams, 




1858, 


State St., 


J. K. Cheeseman, 


302 




N. Second St., 


J. F. Yates, 


360 




Congress St., 


C. F. Burdick, 


260 




Third St., 


D. W. Dayton, 


75 




Levings Chapel 








and Albia, 


S. Hewes, 


282 




North Troy, 


C. Morgan, 


76 




German, 


John Swahlen, 


40 




Zion, 


J. A. Williams, 




1859, 


State St., 


J. K. Cheeseman, 


229 




N. Second St., 


J. F. Yates, 


37i 




Congress St., 


A. J. Jutkins, 


247 




Third St., 


E. Goss, 
O. Pier. 


72 



292 



1 160 



1395 



292 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Levings Chapel 






and Albia, 


E. S. Stout, 


272 


North Troy, 


A. Viele, 


72 


German, 


J. Swahlen, 


5i 


i860, State St., 


I. G. Bidwell, 


233 


N. Second St., 


S. Washburn, 


3$7 


Congress St., 


A. J. Jutkins, 


256 


Third St., 


E. Goss, 


109 


Levings Chapel 






and Albia, 


Z. Phillips, 


253 


North Troy, 


A. Viele, 


79 


German, 


George Abele, 


60 


Zion, 




40 


1 86 1, State St., 


I. G. Bidwell, 


296 


N. Second St., 


S. Washburn, 


321 


Congress St., 


D. P. Hulburd, 


282 


Third St., 


R. T. Wade, 


104 


Levings Chapel, 


, S. P. Williams, 


300 


Albia, 


L. Barber, ) 
S. Coleman, ) 


t-t >-r 


North Troy, 


77 


German, 


G. Abele, 


66 


1862, State St., 


C. W. Cushing, 


270 


N. Second St., 


E. Wentworth, 


268 


Congress St., 


D. P. Hulburd, 


260 


Third St., 


R. T. ;Wade, 


102 


Levings Chapel 


, S. P. Williams, 


i5o 


Albia, 


G. H. Gregory, 


188 


North Troy, 


S. Coleman, 


68 


German, 


Julius Seidel, 


53 



1314 



,87 



1446 



Try City Mission, W. H. Smith, 



1359 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



293 



1863, 


State St., 


C. W. Cushing, 
W. H. Smith, 


321 




N. Second St., 


E. Wentworth, 


333 




Congress St., 


G. C. Wells, 


222 




Third St., 


D. Lytle, 


118 




Levings Chapel 


, H. C. Sexton, 


137 




Albia, 


W. H. Hughes, 


132 




North Troy, 




7i 




German, 


J. Seidel, 


63 


1864, 


State St., 


S. D. Brown, 


330 




N. Second St., 


E. Wentworth, 
C. W. Cushing, 


345 




Congress St., 


G. C. Wells, 


267 




Third St., 


D. Lytle, 


1 10 




Levings Chapel 


, H. C. Sexton, 


132 




Albia, 


W. H. Hughes, 


116 




North Troy, 


R. R. Meredith, 


109 




German, 


J. C. Deininger, 


65 




City Mission, 








Zion, 


Jacob Thomas 


80 


1865, 


State St., 


E. Wentworth, 


272 




N. Second St., 


J. W. Carhart, 


33i 




Congress St., 


E. Stover, 


224 




Third St. 


D. T. Elliott, 


102 




Levings Chapel 


, R. Fox, 


212 




Albia, 


C. M. Pegg, 


119 




North Troy, 


M. White, 


106 




German, 


J. C. Deininger, 


60 




Zion, 


J. Thomas, 




1866, 


State St, 


E. Wentworth, 


2 65 



1397 



1554 



1426 



294 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



N. Second St., 


J. W. Carhart, 


432 


Congress St., 


E. Stover, 


300 


Third St., 


D. T. Elliott, 


144 


Levings Chapel 


, R. Fox, 


96 


Albia, 


C. M. Pegg, 


128 


German, 


George Meyer, 


62 


North Troy, 


M. Hulburd, 


141 


Zion, 


J. Thomas, 




1867, State St., 


E. Wentworth, 


273 


N. Second St., 


J. W. Carhart, 


3 58 


Congress St., 


E. Stover, 


282 


Third St., 


C. M. Pegg, 


102 


Levings Chapel 


, G. C. Morehouse, 


163 


Albia, 


J. W. Thompson, 


178 


German, 


G. Mayer, 


60 


Vail Avenue, 


M. Hulburd, 


1 12 


Zion, 


J. Thomas, 




1868, State St., 


G. W. Brown, 


280 


N. Second St., 


J. M. King, 


374 


Congress St., 


M. Hulburd, 


310 


Third St., 


M. A. Senter, 


61 


Levings Chapel 


, G. C. Morehouse, 


140 


Pawling Ave., 


J. W. Thompson, 


158 


German, 


G. Mayer, 


70 


Vail Avenue, 


E. Stover, 


141 


1869, State St., 


G. W. Brown, 


35o 


N. Second St., 


J. M. King, 


312 


Congress St., 


M. Hulburd, 


333 


Third St., 


M. A. Senter, 


"5 


Levings Chapel 


, C. F. Noble, 


135 



1568 



i5 2 8 



1534 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



295 



Pawling Ave., 


J. K. Wager, 


138 


German, 


J. Seidel, 


99 


Vail Avenue, 


G. W. Fitch, 


190 


Zion, 


W. H. Decker, 




1870, State St., 


G. W. Brown, 


340 


N. Second St., 


James M. King, 


335 


Congress St., 


G. W. Fitch, 


348 


Third St., 


M. A. Senter, 


1 10 


Levings Chapel 


, C. F. Noble, 


i45 


Pawling Ave., 


To be supplied, 


131 


Vail Avenue, 


J. W. Tucker, 


119 


German, 


Joseph Kindler, 


107 


Zion, 


W. H. Decker, 




187 1, State St., 


W. H. Hughes, 


352 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Sexton, 


356 


Congress St., 


G. W. Fitch, 


266 


Third St., 


S. W. Edgerton, 


9 5 


Levings Chapel 


, C. F. Noble, 


137 


Pawling Ave., 


G. C. Bancroft, 


76 


German, 


J. Kindler, 


96 


Vail Avenue, 


D. T. Elliott, 


n5 


Zion, 


W. H. Decker, 




1872, State St., 


W. H. Hughes, 


362 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Sexton, 


449 


Congress St., 


S. Meredith, 


273 


Third St., 


B. M. Hall, 


70 


Levings Chapel, J. W. Quinlan, 


145 


Pawling Ave., 


W. B. Osgood, 


86 


German, 


J. Kindler, 


104 


Vail Avenue^, 


C. F. Noble, 


176 



1672 



1635 



1493 



296 



METHODISM IN TROY. 





Zion, 


J. G. Smith, 




1665 


i873< 


State St., 


W. H. Hughes, 


363 






N. Second St., 


S. Meredith, 


425 






Congress St., 


A. F. Bailey, 


253 






Third St., 


W. F. Sanford, 


4i 






Levings Chapel, J. W. Quinlan, 


151 






Pawling Ave., 


W. B. Osgood, 


102 






German, 


Peter A. Moelling, 


88 






Vail Avenue, 


C. F. Noble, 


161 






Zion, 


J. G. Smith, 




1584 


1874, 


State St., 


H. D. Kimball, 


380 






N. Second St., 


S. Meredith, 


420 






Congress St., 


A. F. Bailey, 


279 






3d and Hoosick, 


G. C. Bancroft, 








Levings Chapel 


, W. Bedell, 


181 






Vail Avenue, 


C. F. Noble, 


96 






German, 


Peter A. Moelling, 


103 






Pawling Ave., 


E. A. Braman, 


1 65 






Zion, 


Joseph P. Thompson, 


1624 


i875, 


State St., 


H. D. Kimball, 


381 






N. Second St., 


S. Meredith, 


39i 






Congress St., 


A. F. Bailey, 


274 






Third St., ■ 


G. C. Bancroft, 


32 






Levings Chapel 


, W. Bedell, 


164 






Pawling Ave., 


E. A. Braman, 


106 






Vail Avenue, 


W. J. Tilley, 


160 






German, 


Peter A. Moelling, 


134 






Zion, 


Joseph P. Thompsor 


1. 75 


1717 


1876, 


State St., 


H. D. Kimball, 


480 






N. Second St., 


H. C. Farrar, 


380 





METHODISM IN TROY. 



297 



Congress St.. 


John E. Bowen, 


328 


Third St., 


G. C. Bancroft, 


39 


Levings Chapel 


, W. Bedell, 


203 


Pawling Ave., 


E. A. Braman, 


1 10 


German, 


F. G. Gratz, 


114 


Vail Ave., 


W. J. Tilley, 


170 


Zion, 


J. P. Thompson, 


78 


1877, State St., 


G. J. Brown, 


445 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Farrar, 


45o 


Congress St., 


J. E. Bowen, 


308 


Third St., 




-> 
00 


Levings Chapel 


, H.W. Slocum, 


177 


Pawling Ave., 


A. C. Rose, 


134 


German, 


F. G. Gratz, 


108 


Vail Avenue, 


W. J. Tilley, 


154 


Zion, 


Jas. H. Anderson, 


100 


1878, State St., 


G. J. Brown, 


545 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Farrar, 


454 


Congress Street, 


, John E. Bowen, 


289 


Third St., 


J. W. Belknap, 


3i 


Levings Chapel, 


H. W. Slocum, 


185 


Pawling Ave., 


A. C. Rose, 


75 


Vail Ave., 


J. K. Wager, 


i39 


German, 


F. G. Gratz, 


100 


Zion, 


J. H. Anderson, 


1 10 


1879. State St., 


G. J. Brown, 


481 


N. Second St., 


H. Graham, 


483 


Congress St., 


G. Skene, 


288 


Third St., 






Levings Chapel, 


S. Meredith, 


185 



1902 



909 



1928 



298 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



Pawling Ave., 


A. C. Rose, 


80 


Vail Ave., 


J. K. Wager, 


1S8 


German, 


J. F. Seidel, 


97 


Zion, 


J. H. Anderson, 


80 


1880, State Street, 


W. J. Stevenson, 


565 


N. Second St., 


H. Graham, 


5 04 


Congress St., 


G. Skene, 


325 


Levings Chapel 


, S. Meredith, 


i 7 5 


Pawling Ave., 


W. H. Groat, 


82 


Vail Avenue, 


J. K. Wager, 


182 


German, 


J. F. Seidel, 


98 


Zion, 


W. H. Decker, 


82 


1 88 1, State St., 


W. J. Stevenson, 


475 


N. Second St., 


H. Graham, 


5;6 


Trinity, 


G. Skene, 


35o 


Levings Chapel 


, S. Meredith, 


181 


Pawling Ave., 


W. H. Groat, 


144 


Vail Avenue, 


J. G. Fallon, 


180 


German, 


J. F. Seidel, 


103 


Zion, 


W. H. Decker, 


84 


1882, State St., 


E. McChesney 


530 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Farrar, 


53i 


Trinity, 


B. B. Loomis, 


322 


Levings Chapel 


, C. A. S. Heath, 


199 


Pawling Ave., 


W. H. Groat, 


139 


Vail Avenue, 


J. G. Fallon, 


384 


German, 


J. G. Lutz, 


116 


Zion, 


T. O. R. Williams, 


80 


1883, State St., 


E. McChesney, 


514 


N. Second St., 


H. C. Farrar, 


5 39 



i85 2 



2013 



2093 



2321 



METHODISM IN TROY 



299 



Trinity, B. B. Loomis, 330 

Levings Chapel C. A. S. Heath. 204 

Pawling Ave., A. S. Clark, 166 

Vail Avenue, J. G. Fallon, 422 

German, J. G. Lutz, 116 

Zion, T. O. R. Williams, 85 2376 

1884, State St., E. McChesney, 519 
N. Second St., H. C. Farrar, 556 
Trinity, B. B. Loomis, 403 
Levings Chapel, C. A. S. Heath, 233 
Pawling Ave., J. C. Russum, 145 
Vail Avenue, S. M. Williams, 45o 
Wesley Chapel, E. H. Brown, 
German, J. G. Lutz, 120 
Zion, T. O. R. Williams, 55 2481 

1885, State St., J. E. C. Sawyer, 465 
N. Second St., H. Graham, 554 
Trinity, P. L. Dow, 422 
Levings Chapel, C, R. Hawley, 217 
Pawling Ave., J. C. Russum, 204 
Vail Avenue, S. M. Williams, 469 
Wesley Chapel, E. H. Brown, 148 
German, W. H. Kurth, 121 

Zion, So C. Birchmore, 60 2660 

1886, State Street, J. E, C. Sawyer, 469 
N. Second St., H. Graham, 527 
Trinity, P e L, Dow, 423 
Levings Chapel, C. R. Hawley, 202 
Pawling Ave., J. C. Russum, 211 
Vail Ave., S. M. Williams, 492 



3oo 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



ISS7, 



German, 

Third St., 

Zion, 

State St., 

N. Second St., 

Trinity, 



W. H. Kurth. 
E. H. Brown, 
S. C. Birchmore, 
J. E. C. Sawyer, 
H. Graham, 
P. L. Dow. 



Levings Chapel, C. R. Hawley, 
Pawling Ave., J. H. Clark, 



Vail Ave., 
Third St., 
German, 
Zion, 



J. L. Atwell, 
J. P. Haller, 
W. H. Kurth, 
S. C. Birchmore, 



April 16, 1888, State St., Geo. W. Brown, 
5th Av.(N.2dSt,)J. H. Coleman, 
Trinity, John W Bennett, 

Levings Church, Charles Edwards, 
Pawling Ave., J. H. Clark, 
Grace (Vail Av.)J. L. Atwell, 
Third St., J. H. Robinson, 

German, F. W. Bose, 

Zion Geo. E. Smith 



121 

128 
70 

455 
596 
469 

205 

192 

490 
144 

135 

79 
554 
556 
482 
212 
166 
5o6 
116 
140 

79 



2643 



2765 



2SII 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



303 



Names of the Presiding Elders of the 
Troy District. 

A. Scholefield, - 1832-33 

C. Carpenter, - J 833-34 
Buel Goodsell, - 1834-38 
Noah Levings, - - - 1838-39 
Tobias Spicer, . - - - - 1839-43 
J. B. Stratton, - - - 1843-46 
John Clark, ... - 1846-48 
Z. Phillips, - - - 1848-52 

B. M. Hall, - - - 1852-56 
Sanford Washburn, - - - 1856-60 

D. Starks, . . - 1860-64 
Wm. Griffin, - 1864-68 

C. F. Burdick, - - - 1868-72 
J. E. Bowen, - 1872-76 
L. Marshall, - 1876-80 
Fred. Widmer, - - - 1880-84 
Samuel McKean, - 1884-88 
Wm. H. Hughes, - - - 1888 



304 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Methodist Ministers in Troy prior to 1885. 

(Represented in engraving on page 305.) 

Rev. William Griffin, D. D., presiding elder of Troy 
district, 1864-68, 

Rev. Samuel Meredith, pastor of Congress Street 
(Trinity) Church, 1872-73 ; and of North Second 
Street (Fifth Avenue) Church, 1873-76; also of 
Levings Chapel, 1879-82. 

Rev. S. M. Williams, pastor of Vail Avenue (Grace) 
Church, 1884-87. 

Rev. E. A. Braman, pastor of Pawling Avenue Church, 

1874-77. 

Rev. George W. Brown, pastor of State Street Church, 
1868-71 ; and since April 16, 1888 to present 
time of same church. 

Rev. W. H. Groat, pastor of Pawling Avenue Church, 
1880-83. 

Rev J. G. Fallon, pastor of Vail Avenue (Grace) 
Church, 1881-84. 

Rev. H. C. Farrar, D. D., pastor of North Second 
Street (Fifth Avenue) Church, 1876-79, and 
1882-85. 

Rev. B. B. Loomis, pastor of Trinity Church, 1882-85.. 

Rev. J. Wesley Thompson, pastor of Albia (Pawling 
Avenue) Church, 1867-69. 

Rev. J. Wesley Quinlan, pastor of Levings Chapel,, 
1872-74. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



307 



Services at Revival Meetings conducted 
by The Troy Praying Band. 



State Street Church. 



February 21-28, 1869, 
Feb. 28,Mch.n, 1 



Rev. G. W. Brown, pastor. 
Rev. J. F. C. Sawyer, 



North Second Street Church. 

December 4, 1859, Rev. J. F. Yates, 
February 8-1 5, 1874, Rev. S. Meredith, 



pastor. 



Congress Street Church. 

February 20, 1859, Rev. C. F. Burdick, pastor. 

September 25, 1859, Rev. A. J. Jutkins, 

February 24, 1861, Rev. A. J. Jutkins, 

February 9, 1862, Rev. D. P. Hulburd, 

November 20, 1864, Rev. G. C. Wells, 

February 11, 1866, Rev. E. Stover, 

March 22, 1868, Rev. E. Stover, 

March 1, 1874, Rev. A. F. Bailey, 

January 31, 1875, Rev. A. F. Bailey, 



Congress Street (Trinity) Church. 

November 12, 1882, Rev. B. B. Loomis, pastor. 

January 11, 1885, Rev. B. B. Loomis, 

October, 17, 1886, Rev. P. L. Dow, 

February 6, 1887, Rev. P. L. Dow, 



3 o8 



methodism in troy. 
Vail Avenue Church. 



February 


6, 


1859, 


Rev. C. Morgan, 3 


March 


20, 


1859, 


Rev. C. Morgan, 


February 


16, 


1862, 


Rev. S. Coleman, 


March 


H> 


1869, 


Rev. E. Stover, 


November 


9-16, 


i873> 


Rev. C. F. Noble, 


December 


20-27 


1885, 


Rev. S. M. Williams, 


February 


*3> 


1887, 


Rev. S. M. Williams, 






Levings Chapel. 


February 


27, 


1859. 


Rev. S. Hewes, ] 


November 


13; 


1859, 


Rev. D. B. Clark, 


April, 




1 861, 


Rev. L. Barber, 


March 


31. 


1867, 


Rev. R. Fox. 



pastor. 



Decemb'r 19-26, 1886, Rev. C. R. Hawley, 



Third Street Church. 



pastor. 



January 


3°> 


1859, 


Rev. D. W. Dayton, 


pastor 


March 


18, 


i860, 


Rev. E. Goss, 




March 


10, 


1861, 


Rev. E. Goss, 




January 


1 1 5 


1863, 


Rev. R. T. Wade, 




March 7 and 


28, 


1869, 


Rev. M. A. Senter, 




February 


5< 


1871, 


Rev. M. A. Senter, 








Albia Church. 




May 


15. 


i859> 


Rev. S. Hewes, 


pastor 


February 


19. 


i860, 


Rev. L. Barber, 


>< 


February 





1861, 


Rev. L. Barber, 


" 


February 


2, 


1862.. 


Rev. G. H. Gregory- 


. < 



methodism in troy. 309 

Albia (Pawling Avenue) Church. 
January, 1883, Rev. W. H. Groat, pastor. 

Ladies' Mission. 
March 18-24. 1859, Rev. W. H. Smith, pastor. 

Camp Brintnall, U. S. Army. 
May 19 and 26, 1861. 

Rensselaer County Jail. 
October 20. 1861, Y. M. C. A. 

Stow's Hill Mission. 
December 12, 1886. 

Railroad Y. M. C. Association. 
July, - - 1887. A. Munro, Secretary. 



3io 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



West Troy. 

Troy. 

Fort Edward. 

Troy. 



Troy Praying Band. 

Officers, 1888. 

f Joseph Hillman, - - Leader. 

f Henry C. Curtis, President. 

f Charles E. Morey, - Secretary. 

Members from 1859 to 
f Barker, Thomas, - 

* Bates, John C.- 
Bennett, Hazen W. 
Bennett, jr., James, - 

* Bennett, Lyman, - 
Brainard, Rev. C. - - - 

* Bristol, George, 

* Carlin, Thomas, 

* Clark, Rev. David B. - 
Clayton, H. B. - 

* Coburn, Robert, 
Cooper, Sylvester, 

f Curtis, Henry C. - 

Devol, Rev. Jarvis, 

Earl, James H. - 

Farrar, Rev. H. C. 
f Foster, William, 
-j* French, Roswell, 

Gregory, Rev. G. H. 

Hall, Rev. George A. - - 

f Harris, William, 
f Hartshorn, Edwin A. 

* Deceased. 

t Present Active Members. 



West Troy. 

Albany. 

Troy. 

Fort Edward. 

Albany. 

Troy. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



3" 



Hawxhurst, Rev, P. R. - 


- Troy. 


* Heath, John Wesley - 


- 


f Hillman, Joseph 


a 


* Holman, D. C. - 


Glen's Falls. 


Howland, Gardner 


- Troy. 


Howland, Rev. E, O. 


- 


Hoxie, G. W. 


- Albany. 


f Hull, Lavaldin - 


Troy. 


f Hurd, R. B. - 


a 


Johnson, E. S. - 


Albany. 


* McPherson, Alexander - 


- Troy. 


Merchant, Georg-e W. 


Albany. 


Merchant, George W. - 


- Troy. 


* Moore, Georee F. 


< t 


f Morey, Charles E. 


a 


Osbon, Rev. E. S. 


< i 


Ouackenbush, R. - 


- 


* Senter, Rev. M. Alverson, - 


„ 


Skene, Rev. George 


- 


f Slason, Rev. James - 


Fort Edward, 


Smith, Sanford 


_ 


Smith, William E. 


Troy. 


Smith, .Rev. William L. 


. 


Travis, Jacob - 


Cohoes. 


* Usher, Bloomfield 


- Troy. 


Usher, sr., John 


Fort Edward, 


* Usher, jr., John 


- W T aterford, 


Van Cott, E. B. 


Albany. 


Viele, Rev. A. 


- Troy. 


Waldron, E. D. 


a 


Wilcox, A. D. 


a 


* Deceased. 




f Present Active Members. 





312 METHODISM IN TROY 



Comparative Table of Growth of the 
Population of Troy 

AND THE 

Membership of Congregations. 



Year. 


Population. 


Presbyterian?. 


Baptists. 


Episcopalians. 


Methodists. 


l800 


1,200 


52 


35 





30 


I830 


11,551 


779 


274 


220 


487 


i860 


39<235 


i-527 


1,281 


934 


1,387 


1887 


6 5, 000 


3,024 


1,882 


1,812 


2,765 



Ratio of Membership of Churches to Popu- 
lation, from 1800 to 1887. 



1800 1830 i860 1887 

Presbyterians, 1 to 23 1 to 15 1 to 25 1 to 21 

Baptists, 1 to 34 1 to 42 1 to 30 1 to 34 

Episcopalians. 1 to 52 1 to 42 1 to 36 

Methodists, 1 to 40 1 to 24 1 to 28 1 to 24 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



313 



Growth of the early Churches of Troy. 



The membership of the different denominations and 
the population of Troy have multiplied as follows from 
1800 to 1887 : 



Presbyterians, 

Baptists, 

Episcopalians (from 1807), 

Methodists, - 

Population, 



60 times. 
54 times. 
54 times. 
90 times. 
54 times. 



Growth in 27 Years. 



During the past twenty-seven years, from i860 to 
1887, the membership of the different early churches 
and the population of the city has increased numeri- 
cally as follows : 



Presbyterians, - 
Baptists, 
Episcopalians, - 
Methodists, 
Population, 



99 per cent. 

47 " " 
194 " " 

199 " " 

i65 " " 



3 H METHODISM IN TROY. 

Annual Conferences held in Troy. 

New York Conferences. 

State Street Church, Bishop George, May 6, 1819. 

" 30, 1821. 

3, 1825. 

9, 1827. 

Roberts, " 13, 1829. 

Troy Conferences. 

State Street Church, Bishop Hedding, Aug. 28, 1833 

May 31, 1837 

North 2d St. " " Waugh, " 21, 1843 

State Street " " Hamline, June 14, 1848 

North 2d St. " " Simpson, May 9, 1855 

State Street " " Scott, April 16, 1862 

North 2d St. " " " " 12, 1871 

" Simpson, " 19, 1882 

Fifth Avenue " " Foss, " 11. 1 



One of the noteworthy incidents of the meeting of 
the Troy Conference in the city, in 1882, and marking 
the last visit of Bishop Simpson to Troy, was thus 
mentioned by the Troy Daily Times, of April 25, that 
year : 

THE RECEPTION LAST EVENING. 
One of the most delightful features of the visit of the conference to this 
city was the reception tendered to Bishop Simpson last night at the residence 
of Joseph Hillman, on First Street. The spacious rooms of the hospitable 
mansion were thronged throughout the evening with one of the happiest of 
companies. The clergymen of the conference, their entertainers in this city, 
and the wives of the ministers and laymen cordially greeted the distinguished 
guests and each other. The receiving group was composed of the venerable 
and courteous Bishop, Mr. Hillman and his gracious wife, the Rev. and Mrs. 
George Skene and the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Stevenson. The masters of 
ceremonies were the Revs. H. C. Farrar, H. D. Kimball, E. McChesney and 
H. A. Starks. Chaplain McCabe, and the Rev. William Taylor of California, 
were among the guests. Among the clergymen of other denominations who 
were present were the Revs. Dr. Baldwin, T. A. Snively, N. B. Remick, J. 
N. Mulford, T. S. Hamlin, Donald MacGregor and W. H. Sybrandt. " That 
which goeth into a man " was abundantly provided from a well-spread table, 
and the strains of Doring's orchestra delightfully harmonized with the tones 
of conversation. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



315 



Episcopal Methodists in the United States. 

in 1887. 

Itinerant Local Lay Total 

.Ministers. Preachers. Members. Lay & Mm. 

M. E. Church, - 13,900 13,918 2,094,660 2,108,500 

M. E. Church S., 4,434 5,989 1, 055,964 1,060,388 

African M. E. Ch., 2,550 9,760 405,000 407,550 

Af. M. E. Zion Ch., 2,110 7710 314,000 316,110 

Colored M. E. Ch., 1,729 4,024 165,000 166,729 

Evangelical Asson, 1,121 631 137,697 138,818 

United Brethren, - 1,566 589 195,278 196,834 



Total in M.E. Ch's, 27,410 42,621 4,367,589 4,394,989 

Executive Official Workers in the M. E. Church, 
July i, 1887. 

(Partly Estimated.) 

Number of Bishops, ----- 12 

Number of Itinerant Ministers, - - 13,900 

Number of Local Preachers, - - - 13,918 

Number of Class-leaders, - - - 83,786 

Number of Trustees of Churches, - 142,450 

Number of Stewards of Societies, - 94,067 
Sunday-school Superintendents and Assistant 

Superintendents, - - - - 45.528 

Other Officers and Teachers in Sunday-schools, 2 14,045 
Number of Workers and Helpers specially 
appointed in Woman's Home and Foreign 
Missionary Societies, and in Churches 

not included above, - 8,500 

Total number of Official Workers, 616,206 



316 METHODISM IN TROY. 



Increase of the Membership of the Methodist 
Church compared with that of the Popula- 
tion of the United States, from 1790 to 1880. 



Population of United States, 1790, - - 3,929,214 

1880, 50J55783 

Increase in ninety years, - 47,226.569 

Increase per cent, in ninety years, - i,i77 

Membership of Methodist Church, 1790, - 57*904 

1880, 3,192,525 

Increase in ninety years, - 3,134,621 

Increase per cent, in ninety years, - 5,413 



Whence it appears that the increase per cent, of 
the membership of 'the Methodist Church, between 
the years 1790 and 1880, in a period of ninety years, 
was nearly five times greater than that of the popu- 
lation of the United States. 



METHODISM IN TROY 



317 



Episcopal Residences. 

The residences of the Methodist Bishops in the 
United States, as designated May 31, 1888 : 

Thomas Bowman, D. D., LL.D., - St. Louis, Mo. 
Randolph S. Foster, D.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass. 



Stephen M. Merrill, D. D., 
Edward G. Andrews, D. D., - 
Henry W. Warren, D. D., 
Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., LL.D., 
John F. Hurst, D. D., 
William X. Ninde, D. D., - 
John M. Walden, D. D., - 

William F. Mallalieu, D. D., 
Charles H. Fowler, D. D., 
John H. Vincent, D. D., - 
James N. Fitz Gerald, D. D., 
Isaac W. Joyce, D. D., 
John P. Newman, D. D., 
Daniel Ayres Goodsell, D. D., 



Chicago, 111. 

New York, N. Y. 

Denver, Col. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Washington. D. C. 

Topeka, Kan. 

Cincinnati, O.. or 
Covington, Ky. 

New Orleans, La. 

San Francisco, CaL 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

Minneapolis, Minn. 

Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Omaha, Neb. 

Texas. 



Missionary Bishops. 

William Taylor, D. D., - St. Paul de Loanda, Africa. 
James Mills Thoburn, D.D.. 



India. 



318 METHODISM IN TROY. 



Three Churches a Day. 

The Rev. C. C. McCabe makes the following 
explanation of a circular containing an attack upon 
the song which he was accustomed to sing, with the 
refrain : 

" All hail ! the power of Jesus' name ; 
We're building two a day." 

" In 1864 we had 9,430 churches. In the year 1887 
we had 20,755 churches. The gain, therefore, for that 
period has been 11,325. A gain of one church per 
day from 1864 to 1882 would be 6,570 churches. A 
gain of two churches per day from 1881 to 1887, a 
period of six years, would be 4,380 churches. Total, 
io,95o. The real gain, therefore, has been 120 
churches beyond this number, so that the song was 
true in [1882], * * * without counting the new 
churches which replaced old ones, or the churches 
built by other branches of Methodism." 

As he observes, the song should now be sung : 

" Get ready for the grand refrain, 
Come join our glorious lay, 
We're on the million line, dear friends, 
We're building three a day." 



METHODISM IN TROY. 

Important Events in the History of 
Methodism. 



Founding of the Holy Club at Oxford, England, 

John and Charles Wesley missionaries to America, 

Charles Wesley visits Boston. - 

John Wesley returned to England, Feb. i, 

John Wesley converted May 24, - 

John Wesley embarked for America, March 8, 

Hymns of John Wesley first published, 

Field preaching in England begun, - 

First " Great Awakening " in America, - 

Lay preaching in England begun, 

Class-meetings first held, - 

" General Rules " adopted, - - - - 

Itinerant System established, 

First Methodist Conference in England, 

Exhorters first appointed, - 

Quarterly Meetings first held, - 

Holiness Meetings first held, 

First Methodist Society organized in America, - 

" America " first reported in " Wesley's Circuits," 

First Methodist Conference held in America, 

M. E. Church in America organized, 

First Methodist Missionary Society organized in 

England, ------- 

First Sunday-school in America organized by 

Bishop Asbury, - - - - - 1786 

Charles Wesley died, March 29, 1788 

John Wesley preached his last sermon, Feb. 23, 1 79 1 
John Wesley died, March 2, - - - - 1791 

First General Conference held in America, - 1 792 
First Methodist Camp- Meeting held in State of 

New York, - - - 1804 



729 

735 
736 
738 
738 
73^ 
738 

739 
740 
742 
742 
742 
743 
744 
746 

749 
755 
766 

77o 
773 
784 

786 



320 METHODISM IN TROY. 

Troy University. 
Statement of the Trustees of the Troy University. 

The Trustees of the Troy University, in view of 
the recent transfer of the buildings and grounds under 
a foreclosure sale, and the consequent closing of the 
institution, deem it proper, and due, alike to them- 
selves and to the friends and benefactors of the 
university, that a statement should be made of the 
circumstances which have led to that result ; a result 
which, though deeply regretted, is not more so than it 
was wholly unanticipated from the auspicious circum- 
stances under which the university came into exist- 
ence. 

The project ol founding a university at Troy, was 
first entertained in the fall of the year 1853, and 
assumed a definite form early in 1854. During that 
and the two following years, subscriptions to the 
amount of $200,000 were obtained for the purpose 
of building and endowing the institution. Those 
subscriptions were considered, and it is proper to say, 
that they were, when made, good and reliable, and 
made by responsible parties. They were thoroughly 
scrutinized and pronounced to be so by a competent 
committee, appointed for the express purpose of 
examining them, and passing upon their value. 

A small amount of the subscriptions was collected in 
1854, but much the greater portion was not payable 
until 1855, 1856, and a large amount at later periods. 

When the financial embarrassments of 1857 occurred, 



METHODISM IN TROY. 321 

wholly deranging the commercial and monetary affairs 
of the country, and prostrating large numbers of the 
business community, including not a few of those who 
had been considered as amply responsible, very many 
of the subscribers whose subscriptions remained unpaid 
became insolvent, and wholly unable to pay. Others, 
though not entirely bankrupt, were so far embarrassed, 
in their pecuniary affairs, as to be unable to pay their 
subscriptions when due, but hoped to be able to 
ultimately pay them. Still others, and not a few, 
taking advantage of the situation of affairs, refused to 
pay, and when urged and finally confronted by legal 
proceedings interposed defences founded on one 
pretence or another, many of which proceedings are 
still pending in the courts, while in many others 
judgment was ultimately recovered in favor of the 
university, but not until so much time had been gained 
by defending that the judgments, when obtained, were 
worthless, by reason of the defendants having in the 
mean time become irresponsible or gone to distant 
parts of the country. 

In the mean time, the trustees, acting in orood faith 
and fully believing, as they were warranted in doing, 
that the funds would be realized in due time and 
sufficient amounts from the subscriptions to meet their 
expenditures, had commenced, erected, and completed 
the university buildings. A faculty of distinguished 
ability had been secured, duly installed, and entered 
upon the discharge of their duties. Students in 
respectable numbers presented themselves for admis- 
22 



322 METHODISM IN TROY. 

sion, were examined, admitted, and the college 
curriculum was commenced under very encouraging 
circumstances. 

Thus far the university was a success. The course 
of instruction was pursued through four years, the 
period which bounds a full collegiate course of 
education, a new class entering each year, and one 
class, the first which entered, when the university 
doors were opened, was graduated with the degree of 
A. B. in July, 1862, having first with great credit to 
themselves and their instructors, passed the prescribed 
examinations. 

But, before this stage had been reached in the 
history of the institution, difficulties had begun to 
intervene, and those of no ordinary magnitude. The 
salaries of the professors must be paid, and, although 
several important chairs were unfilled, (the duties 
pertaining to them, being performed by those who had 
already their full complement of duties), thus reducing 
the number of professors employed to the minimum 
consistent with the scope of the institution, the sum 
required for this purpose was about $6,000 per annum. 
The fund relied upon for paying the salaries, it was 
confidently believed, would be sufficient for that 
purpose, and that belief was fully warranted by the 
situation of affairs at the time when the institution was 
opened, — but there was a radical difficulty in the way 
of its realization. By the original plan, it was provided 
that after expending a specified amount in buildings and 
grounds the balance of the $200,000 of subscriptions 



METHODISM IN TROY. 323 

should be invested as a permanent endowment, the 
income arising from which should be applied to the 
payment of salaries of professors. 

In pursuance of this plan, all of the funds received 
from subscriptions, and applicable to that purpose, had 
been expended in the erection of the university 
buildings, but contrary to all expectation, and fatally 
for the institution, it was found that for the reasons 
already stated, but a small portion of the endowment 
fund had been realized and no income from that source 
was available to meet the steadily accruing salaries of 
the professors, to which were added the current 
expenses for janitor, etc. 

To add to the embarrassment produced by this state 
of facts, there were mortgages on the real estate, the 
interest on which was steadily accumulating. The 
trustees used every exertion in their power to obviate 
the difficulty thus unexpectedly placed in their way. 
They not only used their best efforts to press and 
secure the collection of out-standing subscriptions, but 
by earnest and repeated appeals, endeavored to induce 
the friends of the institution to come forward and aid it 
in this emergency, fully believing that it might, if 
properly sustained by its friends, be saved and estab- 
lished on a firm and secure basis. 

So confident were they of ultimate success, that in 
many instances individuals from their number advanced 
from their own private means, considerable sums to 
meet the more pressing demands. They also made 
strenuous and continued efforts to induce individuals of 



324 METHODISM IN TROY. 

known ability, to endow professorships, or contribute 
toward a general endowment fund. 

In this direction they received great encouragement, 
which, for a considerable length of time, and down 
to the final transfer of the property, led them confi- 
dently to expect, that before affairs should assume a 
hopeless form, a gentleman of ample ability, who had 
repeatedly expressed an intention to do so, would come 
forward, and not only relieve the university from 
present embarrassment, but give it a large and suffi- 
cient endowment. 

In addition to those efforts, measures were vigorously 
prosecuted to secure the recognition and favorable 
action of various ecclesiastical organizations, in which 
they were, to a considerable extent, successful. Several 
of the conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
having taken action, in the early months of the year 
1862, extremely favorable to the interests of the 
university, which, but for the unexpected suspension 
of the collegiate course, could not have failed to be of 
great benefit to it. In the mean time, however, the 
expenses of the institution were steadily accruing and 
the debts increasing. Over $60,000 of the subscriptions 
remained, as they still remain, unpaid. The salaries 
of the faculty were becoming largely in arrear. A 
number of floating debts, many of which had been due 
for periods of one, two or three years were pressing, 
and creditors unwilling longer to be put off The 
interest on mortgages was in arrear for nearly two 
years, and finally in July, 1862, the holders of one of 



METHODISM IN TROY. 325 

the mortgages commenced a suit in foreclosure. The 
treasurer had no funds in hand with which to pay the 
amount due, and the trustees were entirely unable to 
raise the requisite amount. As a necessary conse- 
quence, a decree of foreclosure was obtained, and the 
property was advertised to be sold on the 25th day of 
October, 1S62. 

The trustees, at this crisis in their affairs, renewed 
their efforts to induce the friend to whom they had 
been so confidently looking for aid, to interpose to 
save the institution from passing out of their control, 
and secure it permanently for the purposes for which 
it was founded, urging upon his attention the fact that 
it must be done immediately, if ever. Down to the 
very day of the sale they received encouragement that 
he would do so, and entertained not only strong hope, 
but confident expectation, based upon assurances 
which were entitled to the fullest confidence, that this 
object would be accomplished, and the university 
relieved from embarrassment, amply endowed, and 
placed beyond the reach of further pecuniary difficulties. 

In this confident expectation, however, they were 
ultimately, to their utter surprise, wholly disappointed. 
The gentleman to whom they had so confidently looked 
for the necessary aid, and on whom they had depended, 
did not come forward at the critical moment, as they 
had been led to believe he would, but wholly disap- 
pointed the expectation which had been raised, and as 
a necessary consequence, the university passed out of 
their possession. 



326 METHODISM IN TROY. 

In conclusion, they may be permitted to say, that no 
one of all the friends in Troy University, or of those 
who contributed of their means towards establishing it, 
can more deeply regret the unfortunate termination of 
the enterprise than they. Among their number are 
those whose contributions in money have been the 
largest, whose efforts for the welfare of the institution 
have been most earnest and unceasing, whose labors 
most abundant. Their disappointment and regret, in 
view of the failure of the enterprise, is tempered only 
by the consciousness that they have done all in their 
power to avert it. Every effort was made which 
seemed to promise a favorable result. Every resource 
was exhausted. They labored, and yielded to no 
discouragement, until the final moment, when the fate 
of the institution was fixed by a power beyond their 
control. The result was inevitable. 

They submit this statement, feeling confident that a 
simple recital of the facts will satisfy all who are inter- 
ested that nothing but the pecuniary aid to which it was 
entitled, and which they had a right to assume would 
be furnished, could have saved the institution from 
passing, as it has, out of their control. That aid was 
not furnished, and hence the loss of an institution of 
learning which might have been of inestimable value 
to the present and future generations. 
Troy, April 15th, 1863. 

L. A. BATTERSHALL, GEO. GOULD, 
DAVID COWEE, LYMAN BENNETT, 

L. R. AVERY, N. S. S. BEMAN, 

REUBEN PECKHAM, D. KENNEDY, 

HARVEY J. KING,- GEO. C. BALDWIN. 

J. M. CORLISS, Z. PHILLIPS, 

GARDNER HOWLAND, W. L. VAN ALSTYNE. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 327 

Letter from Rev. R. S. Foster, D. D., who had been elected president 
nf the institution and would have accepted permanently, had it been saved. 

Sing Sing, Feb. 15. 1863. 
J. HILLMAN, Esq.: 

Dear Sir: — I regret to hear the intimation that 
some parties blame you for allowing the Troy Uni- 
versity to be sold out of your possession, as if you 
thereby wronged its friends. No man more deeply 
deplores its unfortunate end than I do ; but I cannot 
forbear to express the opinion that the result is in no 
way chargeable to you. I am convinced that you did 
all in your power, and much more than most men 
would have done under the circumstances, to prevent 
it. It was agreed by all, that its only hope was in Mr. 
Drew — that in case he failed, there was no deliverence 
for it. I have good reason to know that all that you 
did in the matter of purchase was with the prospect of 
his becoming the owner, and that you made every 
effort to induce him to take it off your hands, and not 
until you had reason to be convinced that he would 
under no circumstance take it, did you part with it. So 
far from being censured, I cannot but think that your 
whole course so far as known to me merits great praise. 
I remember that at a meeting of its friends, trustees 
and others, last summer, it was the unanimous opinion 
that it would be impossible to prevent a sale of the 
property for its debts, but it was hoped that Mr. Drew 
would become the purchaser, and in case he did not, 
it was considered impossible to prevent a sale, — this 
was my own opinion freely expressed. I was present 
on the day of sale, and Mr. Drew not appearing as we 
expected him to do, I with others, advised you to bid 
it in, and become its owners, and not wait any longer. 
After the sale I received a dispatch from Mr. Drew, 



328 METHODISM IN TROY. 

asking the postponement of sale — it was too late. The 
day following, you accompanied Rev. C. W. Cushing 
and myself to New York to offer the property to Mr. 
Drew ; he would not buy. I know that you pressed 
him with every inducement, even at times which would 
have involved you in loss, until I became weary of 
your importunity, and frankly told you that I could 
not go with you any more. Nothing more could have 
been done ; the result we must simply deplore, and 
without censuring anybody, and especially yourself. 
Affectionately yours, R. s. FOSTER. 

Letter from the Faculty of the University. 

Messrs. PECK & HILLMAN : 

Gentlemen: — Our hopes of preserving the Troy 
University have failed, and we, who have been asso- 
ciated in it, are about to be widely scattered. In 
taking our departure, we deem it due to you to express 
our appreciation of the spirit and motives which have 
governed you in your connection with the property. 
The faithful and disinterested efforts you have made to 
prevent its loss, entitle you to the lasting gratitude of 
all friends of the institution. We have seen with more 
than satisfaction the untiring energy with which you 
have prosecuted these efforts, even after they seemed 
hopeless ; and knowing thoroughly the whole history 
of the affair, we take pleasure in assuring you that we 
regard your part in it as eminently honorable to your- 
selves. 

Troy, Dec. 10, 1862. 

CHARLTON T. LEWIS, Act. Pres. Troy University. 

OGDEN ROOD, Professor Chemistry. 

CHARLES F. HIMES, Professor Mathematics. 

C. L. KITCHEL, Tutor in Latin. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 329 

Statement by a few of the Creditors. 

Messrs. PECK & HILLMAN : 

Gentlemen : — Justice to you demands that we should 
express our appreciation of your honorable course in 
voluntarily paying our respective demands against the 
Troy University, we having no claim upon you for 
such payment, — and, as some are disposed to blame 
you because the university property passed into other 
hands, we take this occasion to say that your untiring 
efforts to save the property for its original purposes are 
eminently commendable, and that we regard your con- 
duct throughout as both honorable and praiseworthy. 

Troy, Dec. 20, 1862. 

FULLER WARREN & CO., A. W. SCRIBNER & CO. 
MARSTON & TIBBITS, M. L. FILLEY, 

MOORE & NIMS, J. M. FRANCIS, 

BILLS & THAYER, J. J. ALDEN, 

A. J. HOFFMAN. 



Statement of several gentlemen who were present when the final effort was 
made to save the property, and a majority of whom were of the 
number who expected to purchase. 

The undersigned, having heard rumors which are 
calculated to throw blame on Messrs. Peck & Hillman, 
for having sold the Troy University property in the 
manner they did, feel it due to those gentlemen and 
the public to say, that we were present at the time 
when the final effort was made to save the property, 
by making it a joint stock investment, and regard their 
course as not only free from blame, but highly com- 
mendable. They yielded everything that was asked 



330 METHODISM IN TROY. 

of them, and generously offered the property to the 
contemplated purchasers at about seven thousand 
dollars less to them (P & H.) than the price agreed 
upon with Rev. Mr. Havermans, and we consider that 
they did their full share towards saving the property. 

Troy, Dec. 27, 1862. 

H. RANKIN, 
GARDNER HOWLAND, 
CHAS. W. CUSHING, 
JOHN B. GALE, 
GEORGE BRISTOL. 



METHODISM IN TROY. 331 

Retrospect. 

In reviewing the preceding pages, I was led to 
consider the question in what do the life and strength 
of Methodism consist ? The answers I give may 
severally be expressed as follows : 

First, That the quickening power of the Holy 
Spirit sustains Methodism. 

Second, That the doctrines which it teaches, — free 
will, free grace, and holiness, — strongly influence the 
minds of men respecting salvation through Christ. 

Third, That it presents the truths of experimental 
religion directly and practically. 

Fourth, That its purposes are accomplished by an 
itinerant ministry, calling to its aid every grade of 
talent in the membership of the church. 

Fifth, That its societies are universally active. 

Sixth, That it places the laymen of the church in 
fields of labor, where, as class-leaders, exhorters, local 
preachers, members of missionary and aid societies, 
and distributers of religious literature, they successfully 
advance the work of christianizing the world. 

Seventh, That it adopts methods as time and place 
admit to further its work ; class-meetings, love-feasts, 
camp-meetings, lay preaching, woman preaching, 
circuit preaching, itinerant preaching, outdoor preach- 
ing, popular religious music, praying bands for revival 
work, and other evangelistic aids. 



332 



METHODISM IN TROY. 



"The Methodist Episcopal Church," remarks the 
American Presbyterian, " is one of the most perfectly 
organized systems in the world." It is practically a 
missionary scheme based upon methods for the dissem- 
ination of the truths of God's revelation of a Saviour. 
From the time that John Wesley visited America as a 
missionary to the Indians until now the name of Meth- 
odism has implied evangelization. The church's polity 
is a wise direction of all the means of grace necessary 
for the salvation of men, and this work is conducted in 
every part of the globe among all races and classes of 
men, whether savage or civilized, slave or freeman. 
Everywhere active, it administers relief to the suffering, 
gives light to the benighted, and blesses with peace 
the troubled souls of sinners. 




GRACE M. E. CHURCH. 
Now building, on Sixth (Vail) Avenue, near Douw Street Corner-stone laid Aug. 16, 
M. F. Cummings, Architect. 



Corrections. 



The names of the members of the different Methodist Churches 
are printed as written on their records. 

On page 24 read Harvey J. King for Harvey G. King. 

On page 24 read Eliphalet R. King for Eliphalet King. 

On page in it should be stated that during the second year's pastorate 
of Rev. George Skene the church was rebuilt and enlarged and the name 
changed from Congress Street to Trinity, and the building was re-dedicated 
with appropriate services. The Rev. John P. Newman, D. D., preached the 
morning sermon and the Rev. Fred Widmer the evening discourse. 

On page 170 28,000 should read 2800. 

On pages 178 and 183 read Octavous Jones for Octavus Jones. 

On page 184 read D. Frank Bontecou for D. Frank Boutecou. 

On page 189 read Nellie L. Fisk for Nellie L. Fish. 

On page 191 read Eliphalet R. King for Elizabeth R. King. 

On page 191 read Mrs. Mary R. King for Mrs. Mary King. 

On page 211 read Jonas Manville for Jonas Manrille. 

On page 212 read Roscoe Stillman for Roscal Stillman. 

On page 233 substitute Rev. J. P. Haller, pastor, for Rev. J. H. Robinson. 

On page 239 read Marvin L. Crannell for Marvin D. Crannell. 

On page 245 substitute Rev. P. L. Dow, pastor, for Rev. J. W. Bennett. 

On page 246 read William N. Wagar for William H. YVagar. 

On page 257 read Nanning Lansing for Nanning Lonsing. 

On page 257 George S. Emerson should be named as a trustee. 

On page 257 Calvin H. Clark should be named as a steward. 

On page 257 Daniel R. Winne should be named as a trustee. 

On page 259 read Maria S. Blake for Mary Blake. 

The name of G. Herbert Blake should appear on page 259. 

On page 267 read G. Herbert Blake for J. Herbert Blake. 



INDEX. 



Abbott, Elery J 217 

Abbott, Frank B 217 

Abbott, Minnie M 217 

Abbott, Sarah 217 

Abele, George 292 

Abrames, Adelia 237 

Abrames Charity 237 

Abrames, Ella M 237 

Abrames, Harvey 237, 245 

Abrames, Jessie 237 

Abrames, John 237 

Abrames, Minnie 237 

Abrams, Jane 258 

Abrams, Louisa 258 

Academy, Charlottesville 154 

Academy, Troy Conference 76 

Acome, Delia 217 

Acome, Richard 217 

Adams, Addie M 217 

Adams, Freeman 47, 174 

Adams, Jacob E 174, 175 

Adams, James 199 

Adams, Joseph E 258 

Adams, Marietta 217 

Adams, Mrs. Angeline 187 

Adams, Mrs F 250 

Adams, Robert G in 

Adams, Susan E 217 

Adkins, Archibald 217 

Adkins, Harriet 217 

Advocate and Journal ) „„ ^ 

nu . ,. f 55' 62 ' 9°, 9 1 

Christian ) 

Agan, Mrs. Annie 187 

Ager, James B 237 

Ainsworth, Ledia W 210 

Albany, 5, 6, 10, 15, 55, 114, 116, 134 

Albia 37, 48, 49> 54, 83, 85, 93 

Alden, J. J ... . 329 

Aldrich, E. R 250 

Aldrich, Eveline 250 

Aldrich, Minnie 250 

Alger, Anna R 187 

Alger, John 59 



Allen, Addie 237 

Allen, Annie E 237 

Allen, Alexander S 237 

Allen, Cora E 210 

Allen, Cora L 210 

Allen, Eliza 210 

Allen, Ella May 237 

Allen, Ida 258 

Allen, Jennie 217 

Allen, Marion 210 

Allen, Mrs. S. P 246 

Allen, Sarah 210 

Allen, Stanton P. . .234, 235, 237, 245 

Allen, Stewart 210 

Allen, Walter 2^0 

Allendorph, Mrs. Sarah 187 

Almy, George W 187, 204 

Almy, Mrs. Melintha. 187 

Alward, Mrs 18 

America 319 

Ames, Frank W 258 

Ames, Justin A 256, 257, 258 

Ames, Lydia A 258 

Anderson, Annie 250 

Anderson, James H 297, 298 

Anderson, Mark A 187 

Anderson, Mary 258, 278 

Andres, Eliza 43 

Andres Family 206 

Andres, Grace 187 

Andres, John P 187 

Andres, Julia 31 

Andres, Stephen. . .9, 47, 86, 174, 175 

Andrews, Edward G 317 

Andrews, James 237 

Andrews, Nancy 237 

Anthony, Aaron 217 

Anthony, Andrew 278 

Anthony, Celinda 258 

Anthony, Jesse 87, 88, 181 

Anthony, Josie R 217 

Anthony, Lydia B 217 

Anthony, William A . 258 



338 



INDEX. 



Arakalian, G. A 187 

Archer, Nancy 278 

Archer, William S 276, 277 

Archibald, George 217 

Archibald, James C 82, 185, 204, 

184, 187. 

Archibald, John 53, 176, 182, 217 

Archibald, Mrs. Sarah M 187 

Archibald, Thos., 53, 81, 174, 175. 176 

Armenia, Steamboat 79 

Armitage, Mary B 217 

Armitage, William P 217 

Armsbury, Charlotte 217 

Armstrong, Annie 258, 267 

Armstrong, Maggie 231 

Armstrong, Mamie 258 

Armstrong, Mary E 258 

Armstrong, Sterling. 43, 52,53, 174,181 

Armstrong, William 258 

Armstrong, Willie 258 

Arndt, Rosa 217 

Arnold, Emily 217 

Arnold, Smith . .31, 285, 287 

Asbury, Francis 133 

Ashgrove 7, 22, 134 

Ashton, James 231 

Association, National Holiness I 

Camp Meeting ' 

Association, Railroad Y. M. C . . . 309 
Association, Round Lake Camp 

Meeting 135, 144, 147, 149, 153 

Athens 63 

Atwater, F. A 164 

Atwell, Anna 267 

Atwell, Carrie W 258 

Atwell, J. L. . .256, 257, 267, 300, 301 

Atwell, Mrs. J. L 170, 171 

Atwell, Richard W 258 

Augur, Alida 258 

Auliffe, William 187 

Austin, Georgiana 237 

Austin, James N 104 

Austin, John C 235, 237, 245 

Avery, Eva 187 

Avery, Frederick W 187 

Avery, John M 187 

Avery, Lyman ,R . .64, 176, 177, 178, 

182, 184, 185, 187, 202, 206, 326. 
Avery, Mrs. Annie S 187 



Avery, Mrs. Henrietta B 187 

Awakening, The Great 319 

Ayres, Isaac 200 

Ay res, Mrs. Elizabeth H 187 

Bacheldor, Chester 217 

Bacheldor, Olive M 217 

Bacheldor, Rebecca 217 

Bachmann, Julia 271 

Bailey, Augustus 187 

Bailey, A. F 296, 307 

Bailey, Charlotte 187 

Bailey, Elzora 217 

Bailey, Harriet 250 

Bailey, Julia 187 

Bailey, Julia M 237 

Bailey, Lottie 187 

Bailey, Sidney C 237 

Bainbridge, William 231 

Baker, Maggie A 217 

Baker, Mr 42 

Baldwin, George C 314, 326 

Baldwin, Helen T 2171 

Baldwin, Melville C 217, 

Baldwin, Sarah 227 J 

Baldwin, Sarah J 2i7 ; 

Bancroft, Earl 42 

Bancroft, G. C 295, 296, 297 

Bancroft, Mrs. C.J 231 

Band, Dodsworth's in 

Band, Doring's in, 314 

Band, Troy Praying. .72, 98, 156-148, 

i5 6 > 3°7-3°9> 3 IO > 3"- 

Bangs, Nathan 49 

Banker, Alexander D, 214, 215,217,227 

Banker, Florence E 217 

Banker, Mrs. A. D . 227 

Bantel, Emma 271, 274 

Bantel, Louise 271 

Baptists. .18, 19, 24, 38, 39, 41, 42, 63 
Barber, Lorenzo. . . .85, 205, 282, 283, 

285, 292, 308. 

Barber, Mrs. Marion 187 

Bardin, A. G 187 

Barker, Lavinia 217 

Barker, Thomas. . .137, 139, 145* 310 

Barnard, Theodore 199 

Barnes, Lorilla L 217 



INDEX. 



339 



Barns, Preaching in 22 

Barrett, William 96, 97 

Barringer, David P 53, 63 

Barringer, Harriet M 217 

Barringer, Mrs. Mattie 187 

Barringer, Sarah E 217 

Barry, Mabel E 187 

Barry, Mrs. Evangeline E 187 

Barthell, Frederick W 187 

Barthell, Mrs. Annie E 187 

Bartholomew, Julia 258 

Bartholomew, William 258 

Bartlett, Annie E 258 

Bartlett, Arthur 258 

Bartlett, Edward 258 

Bartlett, Lillie 258 

Bateman, Alice 217 

Bates, George 205 

Bates, John C 137, 139, 310 

Bates, Merritt. . . .75, 81, 90, 125, 126, 
285, 289 

Battershall, Jane 217 

Battershall, L. A 326 

Battershall, Walton W 92 

Bascom, Bertha A 258 

Bascom, Helen A 258 

Bascom, Chester 257, 258, 267 

Bascom, Ellen Forbes 258 

Bascom, George C 258 

Bascom, H. Clay... 256, 257, 258, 267 

Bascom, Jessie L 258 

Bascom, Laura 258 

Bascom, Lucy 258 

Bascom, Mrs. H. Clay 158, 267 

Bassett, Isaac V 46 

Bassler, Eva 258 

Bawden, William J 217 

Beam, Augustus 237 

Beattie, Carl 217 

Beattie, Dora 217 

Beattie, Mabel 217 

Becker, A. C 217 

Becker, Anna R 217 

Becket, Littleton 118 

Beckwith, George 258 

Beckwith, Jennie 258 

Bedell, William 296, 297, 282, 283 

Beiermeister, Andreas 271 

Beiermeister, Andrew 274 



Beiermeister, Anna 27 1 

Beiermeister, Barbara 271 

Beiermeister, Anna M 274 

Beiermeister, Caroline 271 

Beiermeister, Charlotte 237 

Beiermeister, Eva 271 

Beiermeister, Jennie 237 

Beiermeister, John 274 

Beiermeister, Frederick 1 17, 271 

Beiermeister, jr. Fred. 234,235, 237, 245 
Beiermeister, sr. Fred . . . 268, 269, 274 

Beiermeister, Mrs. F 158 

Beiermeister, William 237 

Belden, Arthur 187 

Belden, Emerson, 178, 184, 185, 187,203 

Belden, Mrs. Emerson 197 

Belden, Mrs. Julia A 187 

Belding, Dennis 47, 175, 181 

Belding, Mary A 258 

Belknap, J. W 93, 98, 290, 297 

Bell, Amy 258 

Bell, John 258 

Bell, jr., William 200 

Beman, N. S. S 326 

Benedict, Chas. H., 214, 215, 217, 227 

Benedict, Eliza 217, 169, 171 

Benedict, Mrs. Charles H 227 

Benedict, Sarah A 217 

Benedict, T. Lee 217 

Bennett, Albert 210 

Bennett, Anna 210 

Bennett, Electa 258, 267 

Bennett, Elizabeth 237 

Bennett, Hazen W 139, 141, 310 

Bennett, Inez 217 

Bennett, Jasper N 210 

Bennett, jr., James 310 

Bennett, John W 335, 245, 300 

Bennett, Lyman, 53, 137, 139, 310, 326 

Bennett, Mrs. Albert 213 

Bennett, Mrs. Amanda 187 

Bennett, Mrs. Rola 217 

Bennett, Ruth 258 

Bennett, Wells 256, 257, 258 

Bentley, Hattie 258 

Bentley, Maria 237 

Bentley, Minnie 237 

Berger, Christina 271 

Bergh, William 237 



340 



INDEX. 



Berwin, Mrs. Delia. 187 

Berwin, Joseph 187 

Berwin, Mrs. Joseph 167, 197 

Bethmann, Elisabeth .271 

Betts, A. C 210 

Betts, Benjamin 13 

Betts, Brother 9 

Betts, Clarence E 217 

Betts, Frederick 210 

Betts, Harvey 47, 5°, 53, 181 

Betts, Jane 13 

Betts, Jared 13 

Betts, Martha 210 

Betts, Mrs. C. E 217 

Bibb, Edwin 217 

Bibb, Hannah M 217 

Bickford, Almira 237 

Bickford, Israel 234, 235, 237, 245 

Bickford, Mrs. Israel 246 

Bickford, Thomas H . . 237 

Bidwell, Ira G. . .67, 282, 283, 285, 292 

Bigelman, Ada 218 

Bigelman, Laura 218 

Bigelow, D 206 

Bigelow, Mary F 164 

Bigelow, Noah 48, 285, 287 

Biggs, Mrs. Priscilla 187 

Bills & Thayer 329 

Birch, Julia A 187 

Birch, Sylvanus 177, 203 

Birchmore, S. C. . .276, 277, 280, 299, 
300, 301. 

Birchmore, Mary E 278 

Birchmore, Mrs. S. C 170, 171 

Birchmore, Mrs. Mary E 280 

Birchmore, Nellie 280 

Birdsall, Maria 218 

Birkenshaw, Lewis 228, 229, 231 

Bishop, A 249 

Bishop, Albert J 250 

Bishop, Charles B 203 

Bishop, Cora A 258 

Bishop, Elizabeth M 278 

Bishop, Mrs. Elizabeth M 280 

Bishop, Emily 250 

Bishop, Flora 278 

Bishop, H. E 278 

Bishop, John H 277, 278 

Bishop, Mary Elizabeth 187 



Bishop, Mrs. Albert J 254 

Bishop, Mrs. Mary E 187 

Bishop, Sarah M 278 

Bishop, William E. H 277, 278 

Bishops, Methodist 317 

Bissell, Harry 231 

Bissell, Maggie 231 

Bissell, Mary J 258 

Bissell, Melissa 231 

Bissell, Sarah Ann 258 

Bissell, Mrs. C. W 170, 171 

Bissell, Mrs. M. H 231 

Bissell, William 258, 267 

Blackburn, Lois 218 

Blackwood, Charlotte 237 

Blackwood, Jennie 237 

Blake, Eva 259 

Blake, George E. . . 256, 257, 259, 267 

Blake, G. Herbert 335, 267 

Blake, Maria S 335 

Blake, Mary 259 

Blake, Mrs. George E 170, 171 

Blanchard, H 290, 291 

Blanchard, Mrs. Armina P 187 

Blanchard, Viola 187 

Bloom, Eliza 42 

Bloom, Jane 42 

Bloomingdale, Annie R 237 

Bloomingdale, Edward J 237 

Bloomingdale, George 237 

Bloomingdale, Josephine 237 

Bloomingdale, Phoebe 237 

Boardman 198 

Boehm, August 271 

Boehm, Auguste 271 

Boehm, Bertha 271 

Boese, Frederick W 268, 300 

Bogardus, Anna 218 

Bogardus, Hannah 218 

Bogardus, Isaac. . . .214, 215, 218,227 

Bogardus, Magdalena 218 

Bogardus, Viana 218 

Bogardus, William 199 

Bolster, Dewitt E 218 

Bond, Alice M 259 

Bond, Bessie 259 

Bond, George F 256, 257, 259 

Bond, S 228, 229 

Bonesteel, Hattie 237 



INDEX. 



34i 



Bonesteel, Jeremiah 187, 259 

Bonesteel, Leuella 237 

Bonesteel, Louisa A 259 

Bonesteel, Mrs. Louisa 187 

Bontecou, D. Frank, 184, 185, 187,204 
Bontecou,Peter, 53,59,175,176,177,206 

Bontecou, James C 75, 81 

Bord, Charlotte T 231 

Bord, Lydia 231 

Bord, Samuel 228, 231 

Bose, Robert G 237 

Bosse, Catharine 271 

Bosse, Kilian 271 

Bottome, F 151 

Boumis, Eva 218 

Bounds, Benton 218 

Bounds, James H 234, 235, 237 

Bounds, jr., John W 218 

Bounds, Mary 218 

Bounds, Eva 227 

Bout, Joan 259 

Bout, John 259 

Bout, Ralph 259 

Boutwell, Harriet 218 

Boutwell, Jesse 9 

Boutwell, Mrs 13 

Boutwell, Oliver. . .112, 214, 215, 218 

Boutwell, Phcebe A 218 

Boutwell, Theodore 218 

Bowdy, William H 237 

Bowen, Clara E 187, 197 

Bowen, John E 297, 303 

Bowen, Mrs. Harriet M 187 

Bowers, Harriet 259 

Bowers, Lillian M 187 

Bowers, Seneca D 259 

Bowman, Emma A 259 

Bowman, Thomas 259 

Bowns, Eliza 231 

Bowns, George M 228, 229 

Boxley, Alice 218 

Boxley, Caroline 218 

Boxley, George 218 

Boyce, Delia 210 

Boyce, Kate .210 

Boyce, Maggie 210 

Boyce, Maranda 210 

Boycott, Catharine F 259 

Boycott, Rosanna F 259 



Boycott, William 259 

Boyd, George L 210, 213 

Boyd, Mary 210 

Bradshaw, Anna M 218 

Bradshaw, Mary J 218 

Bragg, Aurelia A 187 

Brainard, E. S 97, 176, 182, 206 

Brainard, C 310 

Brakes, Mary J 218 

Brakes, Samuel 218 

Braman, Edmund 231 

Braman, E. A 296, 297, 304, 305 

Braman, Hattie 231 

Braman, John E 231 

Braman, Lorenzo 231 

Braman, Mrs. E. A 163 

Braman, jr., Mrs. J. E 233 

Brandon, Irving 218 

Brandon, Jennie M 218 

Brandon, William 237 

Brandon, Maria 237 

Bray, George E 254 

Brewer, Caroline 237 

Briggs, Adelaide 210 

Briggs, Cynthia 218 

Briggs, Helen 210 

Brimmer, Annie 237 

Brimmer, Fannie 237 

Brimmer, John 237 

Brimmer, Mrs. J. J 246 

Brinkerhoff, Catharine 42 

Brinkerhoff, John 42 

Brintnall, Camp 309 

Bristol, 3, 4, 6 

Bristol, D. N 256 

Bristol, George. .53, 63, 128, 127, 135, 
137, 139' x 47, 203, 218, 267, 310,330 

Bristol, Grace 218 

Bristol, Margaret 218 

Bristol, Mary 218 

Brittle, Phcebe 267 

Brockway, Chester 177, 204 

Brockway, Cynthia 187 

Brooks, Emma 218 

Brooks, Hannah 250 

Brooks, Samuel 250 

Broughton, Henry 218 

Broughton, Jane 218 

Brown, Angelina 237 



342 



INDEX. 



Brown, Anna 278 

Brown, Edith 218 

Brown, Ebenezer 56, 174 

Brown, E. F 227 

Brown, E. Fisk 218 

Brown, E. H 299, 100 

Brown, Emma 237 

Brown, Florence 227 

Brown, Florence A 218 

Brown, George J . . . 282, 283, 285, 297 
Brown, George W.68, 72, 73, 74, 204, 

2 94> 295, 300, 304, 305, 307. 

Brown, Jacob 1 18 

Brown, Jane M 218 

Brown, Louisa 218 

Brown, Stephen D. . . . 66, 67, 68, 282, 

283, 285, 290, 293. 

Brown, Stephen J 187, 196, 204 

Brown, William 176 

Brown, W. H 267 

Brown, Mrs. W. H 267 

Bryan, Libbie 218 

Bruce, Maria 231 

Bruce, Sarah 231, 233 

Brundage, Lizzie 218 

Brush, Lavina 237 

Brush, Rosella 237 

Brush, Tallman 237 

Brunswick, 37, 49, 134 

Buchan,* Jane 238 

Buckley, Clara 238 

Buckman, Cornelius 200 

Buechel, Conrad 271 

Buechel, M 271 

Bull, Caroline 218 

Bull, Charlotte 218 

Bull, Mrs. Julia E 187 

Bulson, Hattie 218 

Bump, Mary 218 

Bumsted, Margaret 231 

Bumstead, Mrs. Eleanor 188 

Bunce, A. A 214, 215 

Bunce, Alonzo A 218 

Bunce, Isabella 210 

Bunce, Mary C 218 

Bundy, Maggie 218 

Burch, Lorenzo 256, 257 

Burd, Thomas 250 

Burden, I. Townsend q8 



Burdick, C. F 291, 303, 307 

Burdick, Elizabeth 238 

Burdick, H. Libbie 238 

Burdick, Jennie E 238 

Burdick, Joel T 238 

Burdick, Wallace 238 

Burdick, Mrs. W. R 246 

Burglaries 73 

Burkal, James. . 231 

Burney, Thomas .245 

Burritt, Eli 198 

Burrows, Edwin A., 82, 176, 177, 182, 

184, 185, 188, 202. 

Burtis, Emma 188,280 

Burtis, John W 218 

Burtis, Mary L 218 

Bush, Ira G 218 

Bush, Ira S 214,227 

Bussey, Bertha 238 

Bussey, Elizabeth C 218 

Bussing, Ella S 238 

Bussing, Isaac 238 

Bussing, Isaac S 234, 235, 245 

Buswell, John G. .53, 70, 71, 77, 175, 

176, 181. 

Buswell, Mrs. Emmeline 188 

Buswell, William H 188 

Buswell & Peckham 77 

Butler, Etta 188 

Butler, Hannah 278 

Butler, Lewis 118 

Butler, William 160 

Button, George W 238 

Button, Rebecca 238 

Byers, Mary J 63, 204 

Byrne, Sarah 238 

Caddie, Bessie 250 

Cady, Henrietta 188 

Cass, Annie 238 

Cass, Lewis, ship 107 

Castle, John 238 

Caldwell, R. B 205 

Calhoun, Anna B 218 

Calhoun, Mary J 218 

Calhoun, Elizabeth 218 

Calhoun, Thomas 218 

Calkins, Alice 238 



INDEX. 



343 



Calkins, Charles W .238 

Calkins, Mary E 188 

Calkins, Sarah 188 

Camden 8 

Cameron, Anna 210 

Campaigne, Bertha 238 

Campaigne, Jennie M 238 

Campaigne, Jonathan 238 

Campaigne, Margaret 238 

Campaigne, Thomas 238, 245 

Campaigne, Thomas A 238 

Campaigne, William 238 

Campbell, Bishop 157 

Campbell, Adeline 211 

Campbell, Anna 210 

Campbell, Catharine 238 

Campbell, Christiana 210 

Campbell, Emma 238 

Campbell, Jennie 218 

Campbell, Jennie F 238 

Campbell, Lillian 218 

Campbell, Lottie, 238 

Campbell, Martin V 219 

Campbell, Mary 219 

Camp-Meeting, 131, 132, 133, I34,i35> 

136, 147, 148, 149. 
Camp-Meeting, First Fraternal. .148, 

149, 150, 151, 152. 
Camp - Meeting, Second { 

Fraternal \ 

Camp-Meeting, Third Fraternal, 153 

Canada, Upper 10 

Canfield, David 18, 23, 25, 198 

Cannon, Ibra 92 

Cannon, Mr 13, 14 

Cannon, Mrs 13 

Carhart, J. W 293, 294 

Carlin, Joseph 93, 97 

Carlin, Thomas 138, 139, 310 

Carlo, Mrs 13 

Carlton, Jane M 259 

Carnell, James 176 

Carner, Helen 210 

Carner, John 210 

Carner, Mrs. John 213 

Carnrick, Diana L 259 

Carnrick, Elizabeth 259 

Carnrick, Ella A 259 

Carnrick, George W., 256,257,259,267 



Carnrick, Lillian M 238 

Carnrick, Peter 256, 257, 259 

Carnrick, Mrs. Peter 158, 267 

Carpenter, C 303 

Carpenter, Julia E 188 

Carr, Alice 219 

Carr, Caroline 259 

Carr, Carrie M 188 

Carr, Laura 188 

Carr, Sarah A 250 

Carr, William 248, 249, 250 

Carr, Mrs. William H 219 

Carrier, Addie 259 

Carrier, George 259 

Carruthers, Louisa M 219 

Carver, C. L 250 

Carver, Jane 250 

Carver, Jennie 250 

Cary, Elizabeth A 238 

Cary, George 238 

Cary, George W 234,235 

Cary, Hannah 238 

Cary, Mary 231 

Cary, Mrs. Elizabeth 188 

Cary, Sidney T. . .177, 178, 182, 184, 
188, 196, 202, 206. 

Cary, Mrs. Sidney T 169, 171 

Cary, William 238 

Catechism 44 

Caughey, James 75 

Chalmers, Thomas 1 

Chamberlain, Harriet 238 

Chambers, Anna F 238 

Chambers, Emily J 238 

Chambers, Fanny 219 

Chambers, John 250 

Chambers, Mary A. . . 250 

Chambers, William 181 

Champlain, Priscilla 278 

Chapel Ann 80, 81 

Chapel, State Street 69, 74 

Chapel, Wesley 100, 101 

Chappele, Rachel 219 

Chappele, Horace 259 

Chappel, Sarah 259 

Chapman, Nathaniel 199 

Chase, Alton 188 

Chase, Henry 174 

Cheeseman, Joseph K 67, 291 



344 



INDEX. 



Cheles, Hannah 259 

Chesbro, Albert 259 

Chesbro, Amelia 259 

Chesbro, Emma 259 

Chesbro, Nellie 259 

Chew, Daniel B 278 

Chew, Mary J 278 

Chichester, Elijah, 17, 20, 25, 29, 37, 
64, 282, 283, 285, 287. 

Chisholm, John 238 

Cholera 134 

Christian, Mary 278 

Christie, George 96, 97, no. 127 

Christie, John 176. 182 

Christie, Robert 200 

Christie, William 259 

Christopher, Carrie E 219 

Church of England 2, 3 

Churches : 

African M.E. (see Zion A.M. E.). 118 
Albia M. E. (see Pawling Ave., 
M.E.). 49,54,83,84,85, 93, 143,308,309 

Baptist 312, 313 

Baptist, First Particular. 19 24,31,32, 
33, 38, 39, 41- 42, 63. 

Baptist, South Troy 98 

Bethel 44 

Congress Street M.E.(seeTrinity 
M. E.) 66, 80, 98, 102, 103, 104, 105, 
no, 143, 307. 

Episcopal 312, 313 

Episcopal, St. Paul's 25, 34, 42 

Exhibit,numerical and financial 281 
Fifth Avenue M. E. (see North 
Second Street M. E.). . . .86, 89, 92, 
214^227, 281, 314. 

First Methodist . .319 

Fourth M. E 61, 93 

Friends 34 

German M. E. (Albany).. .114, 116 
German M.E. First (Troy). 114, 115, 
116, 117, 130, 268-274. 
Grace M. E. (see Vail Avenue 
M.E.). .112, 113, 256-267, 281, 333 
Hemlock ( see Congress Street 

M. E.) 104, 105 

Lansingburgh M. E. .7, 37,40,42,55 
Levings Chapel, ( see Levings 
Church,) .61, 85, 93, 94, 98, 143, 308 



Levings Church, ( see Levings 
Chapel,) .. .93, 94, 95, 248-254, 281 
MembershipofM.E. J 2 g 7 _ 300f ^ 

in Troy J 

Methodist 312, 313, 318, 332 

Methodist Episcopal of Troy (see 
State Street M. E.). . .7, 10. 12-18. 
20-27, 29-32, 34, 36-58 . 
Ministers of M. E. in Troy. 287-300 
North Second Street M. E. ( see 
Fifth Avenue M. EO.57, 58, 86-92, 
102, 125, 127, 140, 143, 160,307,314 
North Troy M. E. (see Vail Ave- 
nue M. E. ) 67, 112 

Pawling Avenue M.E. (see Albia 

M. E.) 83-85, 208-213, 281, 309 

Presbyterian 312, 313 

Presbyterian, First. 9. 19, 22, 24,31, 

S 2 , 33, 39, 4i, 42, 44- 

Presbyterian, Fourth 

State Street M.E. (see Methodist 
Episcopal of Troy),58, 76, 80, 81, 83, 
86, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 105, 123, 
127, 128, 139, 140, 143, 160,174-170, 
181-185, 187-206, 281, 307, 314. 
Third Street M. E. Church (see 
Wesley Chapel) . .66, 93, 96, 97, 98, 
100, 101, 102, 104, 143, 228-233, 281, 
308. 

Trinity M. E. (see Congress St. 
M. E.), 102, 103, no, in, 234, 246, 

281, 3°7, 335- 

True Wesleyan M 125 

True Wesleyan M. E 104, 114 

Vail Avenue M, E. (see Grace 

M. E.) 112, 113, 143, 308 

Waterford M. E 9, 37 

Wesley Chapel (see Third Street 

M. E.) 100, 101. 

Wesleyan M. Zion (see A. M. E. 

Zion) 118 

West Troy M. E 56, 57 

Zion, A.M.E. (see African M.E. 
Zion) . .118,119,120,130,276-280,281 

Churches, three a day 318 

Churchill, Alice 278 

Churchill, Nellie 238 

Circuit, Cambridge 7, 9, IO , l 1 

Circuit, New City 7 



INDEX. 



345 



Circuit, Pittsfield 10, 15, 16 

Circuit, Pownal 29, 31 

Circuit, Whitingham 10 

Circuits, Wesley's 319 

Clapp, Noah 78, 176, 182 

Clark, Anna J 238 

Clark, Alicia 259 

Clark, A. S 299 

Clark, Calvin H 335, 259 

Clark, Caroline 219 

Clark, C. H 256 

Clark, Charles P 60 

Clark, David B in, 308, 310 

Clark, David J 238 

Clark, Ella 259 

Clark, Emma 219, 259 

Clark, Emma L 167, 219 

Clark, Florence A 210 

Clark, Hannah 219 

Clark, John , 127, 303 

Clark, J. B 205 

Clark, J. H. . .208, 209, 213, 300, 301 
Clark, Laban ... 18, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 

285, 287. 

Clark, Lola M 210 

Clark, Mabel W 210 

Clark, Maria. 259 

Clark, Martha 238 

Clark, Mrs. J. H 158 

Clark, Mrs. Melissa 188 

Clark, Myron 259 

Clark, Randolph F 210 

Clark, Ransom 219 

Clark, Sheldon J 238, 245 

Clark, Stella 259 

Clark, Charles P 288 

Clarkson, Annie 250 

Clary, Belsora 259 

Class 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 

Class-meetings . .9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17. 

18, 56, 81. 

Clay, Henry, steamboat 79 

Claydon, Albert 231 

Claydon, Charles 250 

Claydon, H. B 310 

Claydon, William. .228, 229, 231, 233 

Cleminshaw, George 259 

Cleminshaw, Laura 219 

Cleveland, William 12, 13, 14 



Clickner, Eliza 238 

Clickner, Henry 210 

Clickner, Jacob M 238 

Clickner, Mary 210 

Clifton Park 134 

Clint, Adam 234, 235, 238, 245 

Clint, Annie Frances «... 238 

Clint, Jesse 238 

Clint, Mrs. Caroline 188 

Clint, Mrs. CM . 197 

Clint, Sarah 238 

Clinton, Bishop 151 

Club, The Holy 2, 170 

Cluett, Charles F 188 

Cluett, Edmund. .. 177, 178, 183,203 

Cluett, Frances C 188 

Cluett, Frederick H. . .183. 184. 185, 

188, 202. 
Cluett, George B. . .177, 178, 182, 202 

Cluett, J. W. A 177, 178. 182, 202 

Cluett, Mary E 188 

Cluett, Mrs. Fannie B 188 

Cluett, Robert 178, 203 

Cluett, William, 177, 184. 185. 188, 202 

Cluett Family, William 206 

Coates, Michael 10, 12, 285, 287 

Coburn, Nathaniel . 175 

Coburn, Robert. . ..138, 139, 141, 310 

Cockburn, Elizabeth 188 

Coe, Jonas 32, 33 

Coffin, Deborah 238 

Coffin, Peter 238 

Coggis, Lottie 238 

Cole, Dulcena M 219 

Cole, Ida E 219 

Cole, Lizzie 210. 

Cole, Robert 248, 249, 250 

Cole, Susan 250 

Cole, Mrs. Thomas C 254 

Cole, Thomas C 250 

Cole, William H. S 254 

Coleman, H 300 

Coleman, Seymour. . . .282. 283. 285, 

290, 292, 308. 

Collander, Elizabeth 188 

Collars 56 

College, Christ Church I 

College, Dickinson 76 

College, Lincoln I 



346 



INDEX. 



College, McKendree. ............ 76 

Collier, Elizabeth . 250 

Collier, O. W. M . 249 

Collins, Julia 21.9 

Collins, Mrs. Ann M. ............ 188 

Columbus 48 

Combs, Caroline 259 

Combs, Charles 259 

Combs, Susan 259 

Combs, Susie 259 

Combs, William .259 

Common, The 23 

Comstock, Frederick R. .... 188, 196 
Comstock, Mrs. Adaline. ........ 188 

Comstock, Royal D 188 

Conference, East German 177 

Conference, First General 319 

Conference, First Methodist .... .319 
Conference, General, 10, 11, 150, 152 
Conference, New England. . . . 10, 11 
Conference, New York, 10,29,31,52,314 
Conference, New York East. .... 55 
Conference, Quarterly. . . .47, 86, 94, 

122, 123, 124. 
Conference, Troy, 7, 57, 92, 124, 125, 

133, 134, 149, 152, 314. 

Conferences, Annual 314 

Congdon, Eliza 219 

Conklin, Ella ..238 

Conner, William 219 

Connolly, Kate 188 

Connor, Emma 219 

Connor, Mary 259 

Converse, Charles A 188 

Converse, George C 205 

Converse, Mrs. Cornelia E 188 

Converse, Mrs. P. W 158 

Converse, Perrin W. ... 177, 178, 182, 

184, 185, 188, 196, 202, 206, 

Cook, Henry 22, 23 

Cook, John L 112 

Cook, Mary 219 

Cooke, Angeline 219 

Cooke, Julia E .219 

Cookingham, Elizabeth 259 

Cookingham, Jennie A 259 

Cookingham, John M. 259 

Cooksborough 22 

Coonradt, Charles M 259 



Coonradt, Jonas 259. 

Coonradt, Sarah S 259 

Cooper, Ann 25a 

Cooper, Anna F 259. 

Cooper, Benjamin 256, 257, 259 

Cooper, James 219 

Cooper, Lillie 233 

Cooper, Lucy M 259 

Cooper, S. Belle. 231, 233 

Cooper, Sylvester 112, 139, 310 

Cooper, William R 233. 

Corliss, John M. ... 177, 182, 188, 202, 
206, 326. 

Cornell, Latham 87 

Corning & Co 198 

Cornwell, Ellen J 18S 

Corps, Kate 238^ 

Corps, Millicent 238- 

Coss, Caroline 219 

Costello, Annie .219 

Cottrell, Eliza 259 

Cottrell, George W 18S 

Cottrell, Nancy 219 

Cottrell, Samuel 176 

Court-house, Rensselaer Co., 20,21,23. 

Covel, Sarah 

Covell, jr., James, 61, 64, 128, 285,289 

Covert, Emma 238- 

Cowee, David 202, 326 

Cowee, Mrs. David 202, 206 

Cowee, Mrs. Mary E 188 

Cox, Gertrude 219 

Cox, Mary L 238 

Cox, Sarah „ 238 

Cramer, James E 210 

Cramer, Josephine 210 

Crampton, Albert, 183, 184, 185, 188,203 

Crampton, Mrs. Louisa A 188 

Crandall, Eliza 219 

Crandall, Ella M 259 

Crandall, John N 250 

Crandall, Mrs. John N 250, 254 

Crandall, Theodore 259 

Crandell, Alexander 188 

Crandell, Joseph, 184, 185, 188,196,203 

Crandell, Mrs. Charlotte A 188 

Crandell, Mary T 188, 196 

Crandell, Mrs. Mary T 197 

Crannell, J 234, 235 



INDEX. 



347 



Crannell, Jane . . 238 

Crannell, Jesse 234, 238, 245 

Crannell, Mrs. Jesse , .245, 246 

Crannell, Julia . . , 238 

Crannell, Maria 239 

Crannell, Marvin 245 

Crannell, Marvin D 245 

Crannell, Mary E 239 

Crannell, Phoebe 239 

Crannell, William 239 

Crans, Huldah 18 

Craver, Alice 250 

Craver, Alvina 239 

Craver, Catharine 210 

Craver, Chauncey 239 

Craver, Elizabeth S 210 

Craver, Hattie C 250 

Craver, John W 239 

Craver, Fanny 239 

Craver, L 248 

Craver, Lewis 249, 250 

Craver, Martha 239 

Craver, Mrs. Lucincla 188 

Craver, P. H 249, 250 

Craver, Mrs. Philip H 254 

Craver, Sarah Eveline 239 

Craver, William 208. 209, 210 

Craver, Virginia 249, 250 

Crawford, Emma 239, 246 

Crawford, Fred 245 

Crawford, Fred W 239 

Crawford, George A 239 

Crawford, Margaret 239 

Crawford, Rebecca R 239 

Crissey, Isaac W 182. 188 

Cro, Jesse 200 

Croker. Mary 239 

Croker, Sarah J 239 

Cross, Alfred 239 

Cross, Anna E. . 239 

Crowell, Seth 18. 20 

Crowther, Annie 250 

Crowmer, Elizabeth 250 

Cuffs 56 

Cummings, Mrs. Mary A 188 

Curry, Martha 239 

Curry, Mrs. M 246 

Curtis, Abbie . , 250 

Curtis, Annie 250 



Curtis, Caleb 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 174 

Curtis, Catharine 17 

Curtis, Horace 250 

Curtis, Jane B 250 

Curtis, Jessie M 169, 171, 250 

Curtis, Joel 31 

Curtis, Henry C. . . 120, 145, 214. 215, 

219, 227, 276, 277, 310. 

Curtis, Mercy 219 

Curtis, Mrs. H. C 158, 227 

Curtis, Stiles 239 

Curtis, Mrs. S. R 158, 254 

Curtis, Phoebe. 12, 14, 15. 16. 18,23, 

25, 29, 31, 198. 
Curtis, Sidney R. . .248, 249, 250, 254 
Cushing, Charles W 67, 292, 293, 

3 2 8, 330- 

Cushman, Amelia 188 

Dabell, Ellen 25a 

Daboll, George W 

Daboll, Helen H 

Daboll, Mrs. Sarah 

Daboll, Mrs. W. C 158. 

Daboll, Wilmott C 

Dagdigian, Anadik 

Daley, Sarah 

Daley, Ellen 239 

Daniels, Alice L 

Daniels, Mrs. Kate M 

Daniels, Mrs. Libbie 

Danks, Delia 250 

Danks, Frank 250 

Danks, John 250 

Danks, John H 254 

Danks, Phoebe 233 

Danks, Richard 248. 249, 250 

Darling, H. S 188 

Darrell, William F 188 

Darrow, James H . 91 

Dater, Elizabeth A 188 

Davenport, S 260 

David, Edmund V 219 

Davidson, Bertha 239 

Davidson, Georgiana 239 

Davidson, Robert 239, 245 

Davidson, Mrs. Robert 246 

Davis, Carrie N 188 

Davis, Eliza A = 219 

Davis, Henry , . . = 53, 204 



88 



34 8 



INDEX. 



Davis, James H. .. .276, 277, 278, 280 

Davis, Louisa J .278 

Davis, Marco L 189 

Davis, Mary 158, 167 

Davis, Mary A .219, 260 

Davis, Mrs. Jennie E 188 

Davis, Thomas 198 

Davis, Zerah B. 256, 257, 260 

Davison, Ellen C 260 

Davison, Hugh B 260 

Davison, John 267 

Davison, John J 260 

Davison, Mary E 260 

Day, Miss 13 

Day, Three a 318 

Dayton, D. W 291, 308 

Dayton, Laura 219 

Deacons, Local 177 

Dean, Nellie 219 

Debt, Church 47 

De Camp, Morris 18, 25, 198 

Decker, Adalbert E 219 

Decker, Lodemia 219 

Decker, W. H 295, 298 

Dedrick, Sarah 219 

De Freest, Eleanor „ 210 

De Freest, Ella 210 

De Freest, Harriet 250 

De Freest, J 208, 229 

De Freest, John 209, 231 

De Freest, Jno A 210 

De Freest, Matthew 250 

De Freest, Melinda 231 

De Freest, Mrs. Eliza C 189 

De Freest, Mrs. John 233 

De Freest, Mrs. Louisa 189 

De Freest, Mrs. Minnie A 189 

Deihl, Adeline Ogden 239 

Deihl, Andrew 239 

Deihl, Augustus 239 

Deihl, Josephine 239 

Delavergne, Emily J 219 

Delavergne, Mrs. E. J 227 

De Long, J. H 219, 227 

De Long, Sarah E 219 

Demery, Sabrina 278 

Dempster, Dr 70 

Deninger, J. C 293 

Derrick, Henrietta M ,189 



Derrick, Sally 219 

Devol, Jarvis. 141, 310 

Dewey, Mary E 189 

Dibble, Charles 93 

Dick, Frank 210 

Didlock, Bertha 260 

Diehl, Josephine 189 

Diggery, C 250 

Diggery, J 249 

Diggery, John . 250 

Diggery, Minnie 250 

Dillion, Robert 18 

Dinger, F. W 114, 291 

Disbrow, Elias 181 

Disbrow, Mrs. Elias 18 

Disotell, Mrs. Mary 189 

District, Albany 134 

District, Ashgrove 31 

District, Middlebury 57 

District, Plattsburgh 57 

District, Rhinebeck 29 

District, Saratoga 57, 134 

District, Troy 54, 134 

District, West Jersey 12 

Dixon, John J 219 

Dixon, Mary J 219 

Dock, Christian .271 

Dock, Dora 271 

Dock, Elisabeth 271 

Dock, Lena 271 

Dock, Michael 271 

Doggett, Bishop 151 

Dolby, James 278 

Doll, Lucretia 250 

Dollar, Fannie A 219 

Dooris, Jennie 219 

Dooris, Joseph M 219 

Dorley, Sarah A 

Doty, Julia R 

Doty, Louisa 

Doty, Mrs. Julia M 

Doughty, Mrs. Tillie 189 

Douglass, George 152 

Douglass, G. L 178 

Douglass, Serula 219 

Dow, Carrie R 239 

Dow, George H. P 249 

Dow, Lorenzo 9, 16, 20, 283, 285 

Dow, Martha 197 



INDEX. 



349 



Dow, Martha J. . 189 

Dow, Mary E 239 

Dow, P. L., 234, 235, 245,299, 300,301, 

3°7- 

Dow, Mrs. P. L 169, 171, 246 

Dow, William L 239 

Dowd, Helen M 260 

Dowd, Mrs. Helen M 267 

Downs, Caroline . 250 

Downs, Flint W 251 

Downs, Silas 248, 249, 251 

Dowsett, Isaiah C 189 

Dowsett, Maud 189 

Dowsett, Mrs. Elizabeth 189 

Draper, Jane 239 

Dreger, Anna 271 

Dress 27, 28, 29 

Drew, Daniel 155, 156, 327, 328 

Drew, Henry 200 

Driggs, Sarah 210 

Dudoire, Fannie 239 

Dudoire, Hallalie 239 

Dudoire, Nelson 239 

Dudoire, Peter M 239 

Dufty, Alice 251 

Dufty, Betsy 251 

Dufty, David 248, 249, 251 

Dufty, John 248, 249 

Dufty, Mary 251 

Dummer, H. B 260 

Dummer, Sylvia S 260 

Dunbar, John 251 

Dunbar, Maggie 251 

Dunbar, Mary 251 

Duncan, George H 260- 

Duncan, Mary E. B 260 

Dungy, John. . .56, 118, 175, 285, 288 

Dunning, Mrs. William 254 

Dunsbeck, Edith 219 

Dunshee, Nellie 219 

Durbin, J. P 7° 

Dusenberry, Alice 260 

Dusenberry, Eddie 260 

Dusenberry, Kate 260 

Dusenberry, Levinus 219 

Dusenberry, Mary E 219 

Dusenberry, Mrs. Alice A 189 

Dutcher, Anna 260 

Dutcher, E. H in 



Dutcher, George W 210 

Dutcher, Jennie 260 

Dutcher, Lillian 210 

Dutcher, Mrs. Barbara 189 

Dutcher, Mrs. Phcebe A 189 

Dutcher, Nelson R 189 

Dutcher, William H 239 

Dwyer, Alonzo . 260 

Eames, Henry 18, 285, 287 

Earl, James H 139, 310 

Earl, W 200 

Eaton, Homer 291 

Eaton, John 251 

Eckland, Dorothy 239 

Eckland, John C 239 

Eddy, George W 219 

Eddy, Samuel 22, 31 

Eddy, Titus 112 

Eddy, T. M 148 

Edgerton, S. W 295 

Edmons, Frank T 219 

Edmons, George P 219 

Edmons, Julia M 219 

Edmons, Walter J 219 

Edson, Martha 63, 

Edson, O. W 63 

Edson, Catharine W . 182 

Edwards, Annie E 239 

Edwards, E 234, 235 

Edwards, Charles 300 

Edwards, Emma 239 

Edwards, Eddie 239 

Edwards, Edward 234, 239 

Edwards, Frederick 239 

Edwards, George 239 

Edwards, Jonathan 239 

Edwards, Lilly 239 

Edwards, Maggie 239 

Edwards, Mary A 239 

Edwards, Mary C 239 

Edwards, Mrs. Charles 254 

Edwards, 234, 235 

Edwards, Thomas 234, 239, 246 

Edwards, Thomas C 239 

Edwards, Thomas Ensign 239 

Edwards, William 1 1., 234, 235, 239, 246 

Egleston, Alice 210 

Egleston, Zina P., 47, 87, 88, 174, 181 
Eichols, Emma 189 



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INDEX. 



Elders, Local 175, 177, 184 

Elders, Presiding 174, 303 

Eldred, Minnie 189 

Eldred, Mrs. Susan M 180 

Eldridge, Darbin 42 

Elkenburgh, Berdella 260 

Elliott, D. T 293, 294, 295 

Ellick, Mary V 278 

Elwell, Mrs. Carrie „ 189 

Embury, Philip 5,6, 7 

Emerson, George S 335, 260 

Emerson, Ida May , .220,260 

Emerson, Lottie 239 

Emerson, Nettie 239 

Emerson, Oliver 97, 98, 102, 104, 

285, 289. 

Emerson, Oliver K 220 

Emerson, Phoebe 240 

Emerson, William 240 

Emery, Bessie A 220 

Emory, Bishop 70 

Emory, John W 220 

Engel, Ida 260 

Engel, William H 260 

Ensign, Carrie 231, 232 

Ensign, Datus 18, 285, 287 

Ensign, Mary 251 

Ensign, Pierce 25 1 

Eppelle, Auguste 274 

Eppelle, jr, Auguste 271 

Eppelle, sr., Auguste 271 

Eppelle, F 268 

Eppelle, Frank . 274 

Eppelle, jr., Frank 271 

Eppelle, sr., Frank 268, 269, 271 

Eppelle, John 116 

Episcopalians 34, 42 

Essegian, Moses 231 

Estes, CM 177, 204 

Etschel, Elisabeth 271 

Etschel, Elonora 271 

Etschel, Libbie 274 

Evarts, Emma 220 

Evarts, H. A 220, 227 

Evarts, H. L 220, 227 

Exhibit 281 

Exhorters, 175, 176, 184, 268, 234,319 

F, Elias 199 

Fairlee, J. E ...189 



Falkner, Sarah 260 

Fallon, Henry D 260 

Fallon, J G 298, 299, 304, 305 

Fanning, Elisha 198 

Farr, Alfred A., 98, no, 282, 283, 285, 

289, 290. 

Farr, Gertrude H 240 

Farr, Mary E 240 

Farr, Mattie P 240 

Farr, Nelson J 240 

Farrar, H.C., 111,137,139,158,163,296, 

297, 298, 299, 304, 305, 310, 314. 

Faulkner, Jonas 177, 178 

Faulkner, Julia A 189 

Faulkner, Margaret 63 

Faulkner, Mrs. Mary 189 

Faulkner, Mrs. Mary E 189 

Fauncher, Mr 198 

Feasey, Caroline 220 

Feasey, Lavina 220 

Feasey, Thomas 220 

Fecks, Annie 189 

Fellows, Adam C, 120, 184, 185, 196,203 

Fellows, A. Clarke 189 

Fellows, J. Frank 189, 196 

Fellows, Mrs. Anna M 189 

Felt, Ellen J 220 

Felter, Charles A 220 

Felter, Edgar M 189 

Felter, Edwin 220 

Felter, Mahlon 189 

Felter, Mrs. Edgar M 189 

Felter, Sophia 220 

Fenninger, Wilhelmina 271 

Ferguson, James 231 

Ferguson, Minnie L 189 

Ferguson, Peter 231 

Ferguson, Samuel D., 58, 88, 285, 288 

Ferrie, Mrs. Cynthia S 189 

Ferris, Mr 14 

Filer, Abraham 175 

Files, Cordelia 240 

Files, Nancy 240 

Filkins, Mrs. Sarah J 189 

Filley, M. L 329 

Finch, Caroline L. . 210 

Finch, Diana 210 

Finch, John L. . . 210 

Finch, John W . .240 



INDEX. 



351 



Finch, Margaret M „ 240 

Finder, John 240 

Finder, Lydia 271 

Finder, Mrs. Elva A 189 

Finder, William . 189, 271 

Finder, jr., William 204 

Finkle, John 25 1 

Finkle, Mrs. John 251 

Firth, Annie 240 

Firth, Lena 240 

Fischer, Albert 116, 268, 269, 271 

Fischer, Frederick 271 

Fisher, Freda 231 

Fisk, Bessie 189 

Fisk, Nellie L 189 

Fisk, James Y 189, 196 

Fisk, E. J 189 

Fisk, Lorenzo C 202 

Fisk, Mary 189 

Fisk, Mrs. Mary Y 197 

Fisk, Sarah 289 

Fisk, Sarah L 63 

Fitch, G. W 295 

Fitz Gerald, James N 317 

Fleming, John F 220, 227 

Fletcher, Ellen 240 

Flynn, Mary 260 

Fojeian, Paul 189 

Follansbee, Helen M 220 

Foltes, Robert H 189 

Fonda, Lydia J 220 

Foose, Alida 220 

Foose, Mary 220 

Foose, Stella M 220 

Ford, Cornelius R 98, 290 

Ford, D. L 260 

Ford, Ella 220 

Ford, Fannie 213 

Ford, Fannie A 210 

Ford, Herbert 214, 215, 220 

Ford, Isaac V 220 

Ford, Jane 231 

Ford, Jane M 260 

Ford, Kate E 220 

Ford, Mrs. H 227 

Forman, George W 240 

Fortune, Louisa M 220 

Fosmyer, Clara 260 

Foss, Cyrus D 314, 317 



Foster, Abner .22, 53, 175, 181 

Foster, E 257, 291 

Foster, Egbert 260 

Foster, Elizabeth 240 

Foster, Kate 260 

Foster, Mrs. E 267 

Foster, Randolph S., 151,153,154,155, 

317, 327, 328. 
Foster, William. . . .234, 235, 240, 310 

Foungart, Catharine 271 

Fournear, Jane 17 

Fournear, John 17 

Fowler, Abijah 200 

Fowler, Charles H 317 

Fowler, jr., Isaac 199 

Fox, Ella 189 

Fox, Florence M 189 

Fox, George E 226 

Fox, Mrs. Adelia 189 

Fox, R 293, 294, 308 

Fradenburgh. Alice M 240 

Fradenburgh, George W. . . .240, 246 

Fradenburgh, Mrs. G. W 245, 246 

Francis, J. M 239 

Frank, Catharine 251 

Frank, David 260 

Frank, Leah 251 

Frank, Mary E 260 

Frank, Stephen 93, 251 

Frear, Chauncey D 240 

Frear, Rosanna 240 

Fredericks, A 208 

Fredericks, Allen 209, 210 

Fredericks, Elizabeth 211 

Fredericks, Mrs. A 213 

Fredericks, Cordelia 220 

Freeman, Josephine 220 

Freeman, Nettie 185 

French, Asa 240 

French, Carrie 240 

French, Jesse 240 

French, Louisa 240 

French, Leah 251 

French, Roswell 145, 240, 310 

French, Sarah M 240 

French, S. W . 215 

Friend, Heathen Woman's 160 

Friends, Society of 34 

Frost, Edward J 220 



352 



INDEX. 



Fry, E. A 256, 257, 260 

Fry, Kate 260 

Fry, Nettie ... 220 

Gage, Emeline 220 

Gage, Jessie F 220 

Gage, Viola 220 

Gale, John B . 230 

Gale, Samuel 9 

Gale, Heinrich 271 

Gall, Henry 274 

Gall, Maria 271 

Gallagher, Bessie 240 

Gapp, Frederick 271 

Gapp, Fred 274 

Gapp, Louisa 271 

Gardiner, A 240 

Gardiner, Sarah 240 

Gardiner, Kate 240 

Gardner, Mr 68 

Gardner, Minnie 251 

Gardner, Dow 25 1 

Gardner, Daniel 25 1 

Gardner, Eliza 251 

Gardner, Emma 251 

Gardner, Jefferson 16, 87 

Gardner, William 46, 47 

Garrettson, Freeborn 7, 18, 45 

Garvin, A. W 66, 176, 285, 289 

Gatchell, Joseph . . 176 

Gates, Addie 260 

Gates, Addie C 220 

Gates, John F 260 

Gauss, Catharine 271 

Geddes, Ellen 240 

Geddes, Herbert M . . . '. . 240 

Geddes, Ida 240 

Geddes, William ... 240 

Geer, Lewis 240 

George, Enoch 52, 314 

German, Kate 220 

Germans 1 14, 130 

Gibbon, Mary , 220 

Gibbonsville 17 

Gibson, Minnie. 240 

Gidney, Charles T 276, 277, 278 

Gidney, Harriet A 278 

Gifford, Ida L 220 

Gifford, Mary J 220 

Gifford, M. P .220 



Gilbert, Asahel. 43, 47, 174, 19& 

Gilbert, D. Golden 177 

Gilbert, Emogine 24a 

Gilbert, Golden .... 182 

Giles, Charles C 220 

Gill, Charles 220 

Gill, Edward 220 

Gill, Martha . .220 

Gill, William S 220 

Gillespie, Bertha M 220 

Gillespie, Mrs. Mary 189 

Gillespie, Mrs. Mary K 197 

Gillette, Burt W.. 260 

Gillies, Alexander 260 

Gillies, Mary 260 

Gillies, Nellie 220 

Gillies, Clara ..211 

Gillies, Edward .211 

Gilman, Mary E 220 

Glasson, Agnes A 260 

Glasson, Eddie J 26a 

Glasson, John 257, 26a 

Glasson, William H . . . 260 

Gledhill, Mary E 220 

Gledhorn, Mary 189 

Glendenning, Annie E 189 

Glominski, Louisa 271 

Glass, Allan 231 

Glass, Elnora E 231 

Goeway, Nettie A 240 

Goeway, William , .249, 251 

Golden, Gilbert D 53. 

Golledge, Kingman. .228, 229,231,233 

Goode, Mary 240 

Goode, Mrs. George H 240 

Goodrich, Honor 13 

Goodrich, jr., Samuel 13 

Goodrich, sr., Samuel 13, 

Goodsell, Buel.57, 168,285, 288,303,317 

Gorgi, August 271 

Gorgi, Louisa 271 

Goring, Thomas W 100 

Goss, E 285, 290, 291, 292 

Goss, Ephraim 80, 282, 283, 308 

Goss, Mrs. E. A 189, 204 

Gould, George 326- 

Gould, Jennie 220, 227 

Gould, Lillie 167, 227 

Gould, Lillie H 22G< 



INDEX. 



353 



Goynes, Mary 220 

Grafton 134 

Gragg, Hugh 201 

Graham, Eliza 240 

Graham, Eva 251 

Graham, Henry. . .214, 227, 297, 298, 

299' 3°°- 3 GI - 

Graham, Mattie A 220 

Graham, Mrs. David 254 

Graham, Mrs. Henry... 158, 169, 171 

Graham, Nettie F 220 

Graham, Sarah N 220 

Grant, Ulysses S 151, 152 

Grate, Amelia 211 

Gratz, F. G 297 

Gray, Alice 220 

Gray, Archibald 13 

Gray, Carrie 220, 227 

Gray, Charles B 214, 215, 220 

Gray, Sarah E 220 

Gray, Stannard 220 

Green, Bessie C 240 

Green, Betsey 240 

Green, Charles D 260 

Green, Charles F 220 

Green, Eliza 240 

Green, Eliza H 246 

Green, Evaline 240 

Green, Fred 240 

Green, Jennie 260 

Green, jr., Joseph 260 

Green, Henry L 260 

Green, Lucinda 221 

Green, Minnie B 221 

Green, Mrs. Edward 227 

Green, Mrs. F. 246 

Green, Mrs. Harriet 189 

Green, Oscar 221 

Green, Philetus 75, 81, 175 

Green, Rosa 260 

Greenfield, J. N 189. 204, 206 

Greenfield, Mrs. Catharine A 189 

Greenman, Emily M 221 

Greenman, Maggie J 240 

Greenwood, Mary 260 

Greenwood, Mrs. W 170, 171 

Greenwood, Mrs. Mary 260 

Greenwood, William H. H 267 

Greer, David 228, 229, 233 

24 



Greer, Kitty .231 

Greer, Mrs. David 233 

Gregg, Lizzie 251 

Gregg, Reuben 112, 290 

Gregg, Samuel 25 1 

Gregory, Gilbert D 92 

Gregory, G. H. .137,139,292, 308, 310 

Gregory, Lottie 190 

Grieves, Bella 221 

Griffin, Benjamin . .47, 174, 285, 287 

Griffin, Lavia G 158, 160 

Griffin, Thomas A 75 

Griffin, William, 160, 177, 303, 304,305 

Griffin, Mrs. William 158, 160 

Griffith, John 240 

Griffith, Lulu . 240 

Groat, Cecilia 260 

Groat, Charles 260 

Groat, W. H 304, 305, 309 

Groner, Henry 117 

Groom, Eliza 221 

Grouer, Heinrich 271 

Grouer, Maria 271 

Groves, Alice 251 

Groves, Edward 251 

Guenther, Charles 260 

Guenther, George 221 

Guenther, Julia M 221 

Guenther, Kate 227 

Guenther, Katie R 221 

Guenther, Naomi 261 

Guile, Eveliza 221 

Gunnison, Albert C 182 

Gunnison, Azubah 221 

Gunnison, Carrie 221 

Gussman, Ernstine. 271 

Gussman, Heinrich 272 

Gustafson, Agnes E 190 

Gustafson, Anna T. M 190 

Gustafson, Mrs. Anna C 190 

Gustafson, Mrs. Mary 190 

Gutman, Alice 260 

Gutman, Walter 260 

Guy, Elizabeth 231 

Hagadorn, Mrs. Sally 190 

Haight, Frank 261 

Hale, Charles B 190 



354 



INDEX. 



Hale, Mrs. Ellen M 190 

Hall, Aaron 185, 93, 290 

Hall, Betsey 240 

Hall, B. M 285, 295, 303 

Hall, George A 92, 137, 139, 310 

Hall, Harmony 45 

Hall, J 290 

Hall, William B 56 

Hall, William P 175 

Haller, J. P 228, 233, 300, 301 

Haller, Mrs. J. P 170, 171 

Halse, Douglass 231 

Halse, Jane 231 

Halse, Lizzie 231 

Hamar, Angeline 261 

Hamele, David 272 

Hamele, Friederica 272 

Hamill, Lizzie 221 

Hamlin, T. S 314 

Hamline, L. L no, 314 

Hammer, Thomas 240 

Hammond, Ammon 56 

Hammond, Charles H 221, 227 

Hammond, George W 240 

Hammond, Henry 221 

Hammond, Mary H 221 

Hammond, Sarah C 240 

Hampton, Mattie 221 

Hampton, Mary F 221 

Hampton, Minnie 163 

Hancox, Elizabeth 261 

Hancox, Estelle 261 

Hancox, Joseph 251, 267 

Hancox, Joseph H 261 

Hancox, Isaac 261 

Hancox, Lizzie 261, 267 

Hancox, Nellie 261 

Hancox, Rebecca 261 

Hancox, William E 261, 267 

Hand, Asa G 75 

Hanson, James .231 

Hanson, Mrs. James 231 

Happe, Emma 211, 213 

Happe, Josie 211 

Harber, Alfred 231 

Harden, Catharine 231 

Harmans, Frank .261 

Hannans, Libbie .261 

Harper, Agnes 240, 246 



Harper, Carrie 240 

Harper, John B 240 

Harper, Mary . -. 240 

Harper, Peter A 241 

Harper, William J 241 

Harrington, Lena B 231 

Harris, Edith 221 

Harris, Harriet L 221 

Harris, Ida 25 1 

Harris, J. Ann 221 

Harris, John W 221 

Harris, Martha 221, 241 

Harris, William, 137, 139, 141,145,310 

Harris, William M 251 

Harrison, Helen J. 23 1 

Harrison, L 176 

Harrower, Charles S 92 

Hart, Charles W 261 

Hart, Clara 221 

Hart, Cooper 116 

Hart, Harriet 261 

Hart, J. S 290, 291 

Hart, Mertie 261 

Hartshorn, Edwin A... 145, 183, 190, 

196, 310, 202. 

Hartshorn, Edwin S 190 

Hartshorn, ]essie 190 

Hartshorn, Nancy V 221 

Hass, Emilie 272 

Hass, Heinrich 272 

Hass, Henry 268, 269, 274 

Hassell, James 251 

Hassell, Samuel 251 

Hastings, Elizabeth 211 

Hastings, George 211 

Hastings, George C. .208.209,211,213 

Hastings, Loring M 221 

Hastings, Maria A 221 

Hastings, Mrs. G. C. . . .159, 171, 213 

Hastings, Nathan M 209 

Hatch, Louisa 278 

Haven, Bishop 151 

Haverman, Peter 155, 330 

Haviland, Georgians 261 

Hawley, Asa 25 1 

Hawley, Cora 261 

Hawley, C. R. . 169, 171, 249, 254, 299, 

300, 301, 308. 
Hawlev, Kate . .261 



INDEX. 



355 



Hawley, Marion 261 

Hawxhurst, P. R. . . .76, 138, 139, 311 

Hay, Gertrude 211 

Hayes, Annie 231, 233 

Hayes, J 228, 229 

Hayes, Mary 231 

Hayes, Mary L 231 

Hayes, Priscilla 231 

Hayford, Mrs. M. L 190 

Hayner, Carrie 211 

Haynes, John .228, 231 

Haywood, Clara 25 1 

Haywood, Sarah 251 

Haywood, William 251 

Hazen, Wright 75, 81 

Hazzard, 199 

Heath, C. A, S 298, 299 

Heath, J. W m, 139, 311 

Heck, Reuben 6 

Hedding, Elijah.. 55, 58, 64, 68, 88, 
no, 314. 

Heims, George 190 

Heimstreet, Mrs. Emeline 190 

Heimstreet, Stephen 177 

Heineke, Richard 272 

Helbling, Emelie 272 

Helmes, Frederick C 190, 197 

Helmes, Mrs. Lillie A 190 

Helmes, Francis 278 

Hemphill, Andrew 199 

Helms, Henrietta 221 

Helms, Levi 221 

Henderson, Abner 209, 21 1 

Henderson, F 158 

Henderson, Frances C 211, 213 

Henderson, Frank 211 

Henderson, J 208 

Henderson, James 209 

Henderson, James C 211 

Hennessy, Mary 261 

Henry, Chloe P 241 

Herbage, Mrs. Libbie M 190 

Herbage, Mis. W. J 197 

Hermance, Julia 272 

Hermance, Anna 221 

Hermans, F 267 

Herrick, Alice 261 

Henick, Clinton B 190 

Henick, Georsnana 261 



Henick, Mrs. Lillian F 190 

Henick, Sarah J 190 

Herring, Carrie E 261 

Herring, Florence 261 

Herring, Henry E 261 

Herring, Sarah E 261 

Herrington, Henry 261 

Herrington, Orlena 261 

Herriott, Alphonzo 251, 254 

Herriott, Delia 251 

Herriott, Mrs. M. J ... .169, 171, 254 

Herter, Louis 272 

Herter, M 272 

Hervey, James 2 

Herzog, C. J 248, 249, 251 

Herzog, Emma L 251 

Hess, Alvina 272 

Hess, Wendel 116 

Hess, jr., Wendel 272, 274 

Hess, sr., Wendel. . .268, 269, 272, 274 

Heuson, John 231 

Hewes, S 291, 308 

Hewitt, Ann E 221 

Hewitt, Ida 227 

Hewitt, Ida May 221 

Hewitt, George W. L 221 

Hewitt, R. W 214, 215, 221, 227 

Hibbard, F. G , 75 

Hicks, Lewis 241 

Hicks, Lewis E 246 

Hicks, Mrs. Hannah A 190 

Hicks, Mrs. L. E 246 

Hicks, Nellie 241 

Higbie, Benjamin 199 

Hill, Almira 221 

Hill, Charles 221 

Hill, C. C 177, 203 

Hillhouse, Thomas 198 

Hillman, Elizabeth. . . .53, 78, 79, no, 

127. 
Hillman, Isaac. ..50, 53, 60, 102, 104, 

105, 107, no, 127, 129, 134. 

Hillman, Jacob 79 

Hillman, Joseph. . .15, 59, 60, 64, 72, 

73. 80, 98, no, in, 116, 120. 129. 

!35> J 37, 139^ Ho, 141, 143- i45> HI- 
14S, 149, 155. 156, 159. 182. 184.185, 
202, 206, 234, 235, 241, 245.276,277, 
310, 311, 314, 327. 



356 



INDEX. 



Hillman, Mrs. Joseph. . .23, 116, 151, 

162,163, 169, 171, 184, 190, 196, 314 

Hillman, Nancy 50 

Hillman, Ordelia M. .23, 116, 151,162, 

163, 169, 171, 190. 

Hills, Francis 221 

Himes, Charles F 328 

Himes, Edward 221 

Himes, John 241 

Himes, Libbie 241 

Himes, Sarah 221 

Hines, Maggie 211 

Hines, Mary 211 

Hines, Minnie 211 

Hines, Mrs. Mary 211 

Hines, Sarah 211 

Hislop, Albert E 241 

Hislop, Annie 231, 241 

Hislop, Elizabeth 241 

Hislop, Fannie 241 

Hislop, Frank W. . 241 

Hislop, Jessie 241 

Hislop, Thomas W 228, 229, 233 

Hoag, Levi 221, 227 

Hoag, Mrs. Levi 227 

Hoag, Ruth G 221 

Hobbs, DeWitt 241 

Hobbs, Howard 241 

Hobbs, Josie 241 

Hodges, Clara 221 

Hodges, George C 261 

Hoffman, A. J 329 

Hoffmaster, Olive 221 

Hoffmeister, Heinrich 272 

Hoffmeister, Henry 274 

Hogle, Philip 93 

Holdridge, Merton A 190 

Holiness, Doctrine of.. .126,127, 130, 

147, 148. 

Holland, Frank 251 

Hollis, Elizabeth A 241 

Hollister, Carrie 211 

Hollister, Carrie V 190 

Hollister, Maggie 197 

Hollister, Maggie L 190 

Hollister, Mrs. Carrie C 190 

Hollister, William H. . .184, 190, 203, 

208, 209. 
Holman, D. C. 139,141,311 



Holmes, Addie 261 

Holmes, Augusta M 221 

Holmes, Clara E 190, 196, 197 

Holmes, Edward 184 

Holmes, Henry. .183,184,190,197.203 

Holmes, Lizzie E 190 

Holmes, Mrs. Maria M 190 

Holmes, Osborn W 221 

Holt, Ellen 241 

Holt, Kittle 261 

Holtz, Nellie 221 

Home, Day 45 

Home, Kent 164 

Homer, William K 261 

Hooper, John 22 1 

Hooper, John H 277 

Hooper, Mrs. Ellen M 190 

Hooper, Otis F 190 

Hoosick 134 

Horning, Mary 261 

Horton, Alice 261 

Horton, Elvira .241 

Horton, Eva C 26 1 

Horton, George W....183, 184, 185, 

190, 203. 

Horton, Harry G 190 

Horton, Isabel F 190 

Horton, James M 190 

Horton, Merritt 267 

Horton, Mrs. Catharine E 190 

Horton, Mrs. Effie W 190 

Horton, William H 190 

Hotchkin, A. L 204 

Hotchkin, Delia M . 190 

Hotckin, Nettie M 190 

Houghtaling, James B 75 

Houghtaling, Mary E 241 

House, Edward O., 120, 184, 185, 190, 

197, 203, 276, 277. 

House, Mrs. Anna K 184, 190 

House, Mrs. E. 169, 171, 197 

House, Samuel A 203 

Howard, Caroline 261 

Howard, Elias 200 

Howard, Harriet H . . . 200 

Howard, John 200 

Howard, Kate 261 

Howe, Chandler C 221 

Howe, Jerod D 241 



INDEX. 



357 



Howe, Philander A 261 

Howe, Samuel 16, 282, 283, 285 

Howes, Elizabeth 241 

Howes, George 241 

Howes, Hattie 241 

Howland, Edgar O., 111,135,139,141, 

3"- 

Howland, Gardiner, 78, no, 127,137, 

139, 141, 311, 326, 330. 

Hoxie, G. W 311 

Hudson, Daniel 96, 97, 112 

Hudson, Loraine 221 

Hudson, Myra 164 

Hudson, Thomas 221 

Hudson, Upper 7 

Hues, Joseph 200 

Huff, John 190 

Huff, Henry 190 

Huff, Margarethe 272 

Huff, Mrs. Fannie E 190 

Hughes, George 214, 215, 221 

Hughes, Lucy 221 

Hughes, William H. .72, 85, 293, 295, 

296, 303. 

Hulbert, G. W 234, 235 

Hulbert, Charles W 234, 241, 245 

Hulbert, Edwin H 190 

Hulbert, Mrs. C. W., 234,245,246,158 

Hulbert, Mrs. Kate A 190 

Hulbert, Philip F 241, 245 

Hulbert, Sarah A 241 

Hulbert, S. C 203, 245 

Hulbert, Seymour 190 

Hulburd, David P., 282, 283, 285, 292 

Hulburd, M 294 

Hull, Fred 221 

Hull, Jennie 221 

Hull, Levaldin. . . .139, 141, 145, 214, 

221, 311. 

Hull, Lillian 211 

Hull, Margaret 221 

Hull, Mary C 261 

Hull, Mrs. Mary C 267 

Hulme, James 75 

Humphrey, Allen 211 

Humphrey, Fidelia 211 

Humphrey, Ira P 256, 257,261 

Humphrey, Jessie 261 

Hunt, Enoch 97, 176. 182. 190 



Hunt, Hattie 261 

Hunt, Margaret M 221 

Huntington, P 200 

Hurd, Cora 221 

Hurd, Delia G 221 

Hurd, George B 221 

Hurd, Gurtie V 222 

Hurd, R. B., 145, 214, 215,222,227,311 

Hurd, Rollin J 222 

Hurd, William F 75 

Hurst, Charles 190 

Hurst, John F 317 

Hutchinson, Mrs. Mary A 190 

Huth, Amanda 190 

Huth, Mrs. Sarah R 190 

Huyck, Anna F 261 

Huyck, Francis 261 

Huyck, Jennie N 261, 267 

Hyde, Liberty 175 

Hymns, John Wesley's 319 

Ide, George] P 214 

Ide, Herbert S 222 

Ide, John C 214, 215, 222 

Ide, Josephine 222 

Ida, Mount 45, 61 

Ide, Mrs. F. B 164 

Ide, Mrs. J. C. . 169, 171 

Ide, Mrs. George P 222 

Ide, Stella M 222 

Her, Amanda B 251 

Her, Edith 251 

Her, Eva 25 1 

Her, Irene 25 1 

Her, Joseph H 248, 249, 251, 254 

Her, Lottie 25 1 

Her, Lydia 251 

Her, Martin 25 1 

Her, Mary 25 1 

Her, Mrs. J. H 254 

Her, Philetus 25 1 

Imerson, Ada 241 

Imerson, Ernest 241 

Imerson, Esther 241 

Imerson, Mary. 241 

Imeson, Alida 261 

Immersions 31, 59 

Ingalls, Harry O 190 



358 



INDEX. 



Ingalls, Horace B 190 

Ingalls, Mrs. M. E 190 

Ingalls, Oscar F 190 

Ingram, Harriet 251 

Inn, Ashley's 8 

Inskip, John S 147 

Instruments, Musical 60 

Irish, Mrs. Emeline 191 

Iron Works 49, 60 

Irwin, Margaret 222 

Islands, Bahama 107 

Itinerants 12 

Ives, Emeline 211 



Jackson, Elizabeth 211 

Jackson, Hattie A 278 

Jackson, Levinia 278 

Jackson, Martha 278 

Jackson, Matilda 278 

Jackson, Mrs. Martha 280 

Jackson, Perry M. . . .276, 277,278,280 

Jacobs, Annetta E 222 

Jacobs, John E 222 

Jacobs, Jacob V 214, 222 

Jacobs, Mary A 222 

Jail, Rensselaer County 21, 3C9 

Jamieson, Matilda 222 

Jamison, James 191 

Janes, E. S 92, 149, 150, 151, 152 

Janes, Lester 67, 290 

Jejeiam, Manorg H 191 

Jenny, Sarah J 241 

Jepson, Ida M 191 

Jessemine, James 222 

Jillson, Mrs 13 

Job, Esther 25 1 

Johnson, A 291 

Johnson, Albinus 285 

Johnson, Carrie F 191 

Johnson, Emily C 191 

Johnson, E. S 311 

Johnson, Frederick 222 

Johnson, John 17 

Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth 191 

Johnson, Mrs. Frederick 227 

Johnson, Samuel 251 

Johnson, Sarah F 222 

Johnson, Sarah J 241 



Jombarjean, G. M 191 

Jones, Addie 222 

Jones, Ann 241 

Jones, Bishop 151 

Jones, Carrie A 191 

Jones, Catharine 222 

Jones, E 206 

Jones, Eliza 251 

Jones, Ella H 206 

Jones, Fred 248, 249,251 

Jones, Harry B 191 

Jones, Libbie 232 

Jones, Lizzie 222, 227 

Jones, Lewis 118: 

Jones, Maria 222 

Jones, Mrs. Angeline M 191, 203 

Jones, Mrs. Carrie E 191 

Jones, Mrs. C. W 163 

Jones, Mrs. J. B 227 

Jones, Octavous. . . . 178, 183, 191, 202. 

Jones, Sarah 261, 278 

Jordan, Mrs. Elizabeth 191 

Jordan, William 261 

Joyce, Isaac W 317 

Jutkins, A. J 291, 292, 307 

Karajian, G. H 191 

Kavanaugh, Bishop 151 

Keating, Cora A 241 

Keating, Mrs. E. A 245 

Keeler, Katie 211 

Keeling, H 199 

Keeling, Richard 199 

Keith, Harriet . . 191 

Keith, Isaac 204 

Keith, Robert , 191 

Keller, J 268, 269 

Keller, Julius 268, 272, 274 

Keller, Maria 272 

Kellum, Mrs. Gertrude 191 

Kelly, Andrew 280 

Kelly, Hortense 241 

Kelly, Louisa M 241 

Kelly, Matilda 278 

Kelly, Nancy 278 

Kelly, Richard 277, 278 

Kelly, William 200 

Kemcut, Ida Amelia 241 



INDEX. 



359 



Kemcut, Nathaniel 241 

Kemp, H 276 

Kemp, Hansel 278 

Kemp, J. A 276 

Kemp, John H 277, 278 

Kemp, Indianna 278 

Kemp, Lucy 278 

Kemp, Margaret 278 

Kemp, Marietta 278 

Kemp, Nancy 278 

Kemp, Rosa 278 

Kemp, Sarah 278 

Kemp, Sally 278 

Kemp, W 276 

Kemp, William 274, 277, 278 

Kendall, Clara 261 

Kendall, Frank 241 

Kendall, Jennie E 241 

Kendall, Mary E 191 

Kendall, Mrs. Jennie E 191 

Kendall, Newall A 191 

Kennedy, D 326 

Kennedy, Edith 241 

Kennedy, Elizabeth. 241 

Kennedy, H. S 234, 235 

Kennedy, Howard S.. . .234, 241, 245 

Kennedy, Josephine 241 

Kennedy, Lydia A 241 

Kennedy, Maggie 241 

Kennedy, Susie 241 

Kenter, Sarah J 261 

Kenyon, David R 191 

Kenyon, Mrs. Emily 191 

Ketchum, Joel 13, 21, 25 

Kilburn, Sophia W 222 

Kilby, Charles 222 

Kimball, Burr 222 

Kimball, Henry D. .72.73,178,296,314 

Kincaid, Agnes 222 

Kindler, Joseph 295 

King, Alford Floyd 191 

King, Eliphalet 23, 25 

King, Eliphalet 198 

King, Eliphalet R 24, 182 

King, Elizabeth R 191 

King, Eliza J. 222 

King, Harvey J 24, 326 

King, James M 294, 295 

King, Joseph E 153 



King, Letitia E 191 

King, Mary J 191 

King, Matilda E 191 

King, Mrs. Mary 191 

King, Mrs. Myron 50 

King, Mrs. Sarah R 191 

King, Myron 203, 206 

King, Roger 24, 53, 181, 201 

Kingswood 3 

Kinlock, Alexander 222 

Kinlock, Mary J . . .222 

Kinlock, Reed 222 

Kipp, Abbie 227 

Kipp, Abbie E 222 

Kipp, Walter L 176 

Kirchfield, Amanda . . . .246, 272, 274 

Kirchfield, Barbara 272 

Kirk, Celia C .241 

Kirk, Elizabeth 222 

Kirkbride, Margaret 251 

Kirkbride, Mary 252 

Kirkbride, Mrs. Samuel 254 

Kirkbride, Sarah 252 

Kirkbride, Samuel A 94 

Kirkbride, Wilson 252 

Kitchel, C. L 328 

Kittle, Mrs. Evalina 191 

Kittridge, Clarissa 252 

Kittridge, Mrs. George 254 

Kline, Leonard. 222 

Kline, Mary 222 

Kling, Margaret E 261 

Klock, jr., Daniel. . 100, 101, 183, 184, 
185, 191, 196, 202, 228, 233. 

Kiock, Emma L 241 

Klock, Fred 241 

Knapp, Elder 63 

Knapp, Etta 241 

Knauff, Hattie 261 

Knight, Caleb 83, 175 

Knight, Catharine 211 

Knight, Horace B 75 

Knight, Joseph H .204 

Knight, Mrs. Catharine 213 

Knight, Richard 241 

Knowlton, Mrs. Maria A 191 

Kochart, Emma 211 

Kochart, Paulina 211 

Koehler, John 222 



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INDEX. 



Koon, Anna 211 

Kreiss, Caroline 272 

Kreiss, Carrie 274 

Kreiss, Elizabeth 272 

Kreiss, H 268, 269 

Kreiss, jr., Heinrich 272 

Kreiss, jr., Henry 274 

Kreiss, sr., Heinrich 272 

Kreiss, sr., Henry 274 

Kronick, Emma 261, 267 

Kronick, John M 261 

Kronick, Mary 261 

Kuehn, Ludwina 272 

Kurth, William H., 117,268,269, 272, 
274, 299, 300, 301. 



Labrun, Mrs. Judith A 191 

Ladies' Aid Society. 202 

Lahann, Henry 116 

Lake Champlain 7, 8 

Lake, Laui a 261 

Lamoreaux, A. & D 198 

Landslide 61 

Landon, Frederick E 222 

Landon, Gardner. .53, 71, 96, 97, 123, 
175, 176, 182. 

Landon, G. & H 87 

Landon, Julia C 63 

Landon, Rosa 222 

Lane, Anna 222 

Lane, Charles 175, 181 

Lane, George N 222 

Lane, Mrs. Jacob L 42 

Lane, Sarah C 222 

Lang, Robert 241 

Lang, Sarah 241 

Lansing, Abram 267 

Lansing, Anna J , 262 

Lansing, Garrett 222 

Lansing, Hattie 222 

Lansing, Laura 222 

Lansing, Mary A 262 

Lansing, Mrs. N 267 

Lansing, N 256 

Lansing, Nanning 257, 262, 267 

Lansingburgh, 7, 37, 40, 42, 43, 55, 67 

Larkins, Alpha 191 

Lasell, Elias 200 



Lasker, William P 262 

Lassells, Julia 241 

Lassells, Mary E 241 

Lawrence, Ocena 222 

Laymen, Methodist 4 

Lazarus, Ada 262 

Leaders, Class : 

Fifth Avenue M. E. Church. . . .214 
German, M. E. Church, First. .268 

Grace M. E. Church 257 

Levings M. E. Church 249 

Pawling Avenue M. E Church .209 
Third Street M. E. Church . . ..228 

Trinity M. E. Church 234 

State Street M. E. Church, 174, 175, 
176, 177, 184. 

Zion Church, A. M. E 277 

Learned, Alice 222 

Lee, Calista 262 

Lee, Charles A 191 

Lee, H 206 

Lee, H. H 177 

Lee, James 232 

Lee, Minnie 262 

Lee, Mrs. Abbie. . . 191 

Lee, Mrs. Eliza 191 

Lee, Nathaniel 191, 203. 206 

Lee, Thomas 262 

Leet, Charles M 191 

Leet, Mrs. Prudence 191 

Leet, William E 191 

Leffier, Adaline 242 

Leffler, Amelia 242 

Leffier, Genevieve 242 

Leggett, Delia M 222 

Leggett, J 215 

Leggett, John 214. 222 

Leggett, Joseph 214, 222 

Leggett, J. A 215 

Leggett, Mary Belle 222 

Leggett, Mary E 222 

Lemon, Charles. ..22, 26, 50, 53, 174, 
175, 181, 201. 

Lemon, James 92 

Lemon, Mrs, Charles 22 

Lester, Felix 199 

Levings, Noah. .33. 34, 35, 36, 57, 58, 

61, 88, 123, 282,283 , 285, 288.289,303 

Lewis, Abbie 252 



INDEX. 



361 



Lewis, Charlton T 76, 328 

Lewis, Mary J 222 

Lewis, Mrs. Peter N 254 

Lewis, Mrs. Carrie 191 

Lewis, Peter N 252 

Lewis, Z. N 66, 289 

Lindsay, John W 61, 62, 128, 289 

Lindsay, Sarah 278 

Link, Effie 222 

Lippin, Max R 289 

Litty, Frank 262 

Litty, John 262 

Litty, Sarah 262 

Livingston, Levinia 278 

Lobdell, Matilda 242 

Lockwood, Etta 262 

London 4, 5 

Lont, Cornelia 222 

Lont, Lucinda 222 

Loomis, Georgiana 262 

Loomis, B. B. .298, 299, 304, 305, 307 

Lott, Diana 242 

Lott, Joseph 242 

Lott, Libbie 242 

Lott, Thomas O 242 

Lovef easts 13, 22, 28, 29, 37 

Lovejoy, Elizabeth 209, 211 

Lovejoy, Mrs. J. A 191 

Lovejoy, Mrs. Libbie 213 

Loudon, John. .22, 24, 46, 43, 170, 181 

Louisville 149 

Lowe, Eliza 262 

Lub, William A 191 

Luccook, John 75 

Luce, Thomas 232 

Lucht, Julia 272 

Luckey, Samuel . .41, 42, 43, 45, 285, 
287. 

Lull, Henrietta 222 

Lutz, J. G 298, 299 

Lynk, Nancy '. 262 

Lynk, William 262 

Lyon, A. D 214, 215 

Lyon, Asa D 222 

Lyon, Job P 222 

Lyon, Bert 222, 227 

Lyon, H. Elizabeth 222 

Lyon, Mrs. A. D 158, 167, 227 

Lytle, David 285, 923 



Mabeus, Henry 116 

Mace, Anna 262 

Mace, Grace V 262 

Mace, Ida E 262 

Mace, Jesse G 262 

Mace, John 262 

Mace, Maggie L 262 

Mace, Mrs. John 267 

MacGregor, Donald 314 

Mackey, John 18 

Mackey, John W. . . .88, 174, 181, 203 

Mackey, Rebecca 18 

Maffitt, J. Newland . . 37, 41, 53, 54, 61, 

62, 63, 66, 72, 128, 129, 282, 283, 285 

Magazine, Methodist 37, 41, 53 

Magee, Anna M 222 

Magee, Edgar E 222 

Magee, Harriet E 223 

Magee, Libbie 223 

Magee, Rosanna F 223 

Maguire, Maria 223 

Main, Mattie E 223 

Mallalieu, William F 167, 317 

Mallery, Hattie E 191 

Mallery, Mary J 191 

Mallery, Mrs. Mary J 191 

Mallory, M. C 205 

Mallory, Stephen .. 177, 184, 185, 191, 

196, 203, 206. 

Mambert, Arlington H 242 

Mambert, Alvin 242 

Mambert, Electra 242 

Mambert, Grace 242 

Mambert, Ida 242 

Mambert, Harrison 262 

Mambert, Lottie 262 

Mambert, Mary 211 

Mambert, William H 242 

Manheim 147 

Mann, Fanny M 262 

Mann, Maria 262 

Mann, Mrs. Ellen A 191 

Mann, Mrs. W. H 197 

Mann, 262 

Mann, William H. 184,185,191,196,204 

Mannell, Anna May 191 

Mannell, George 191 

Mannell, Gussie J 191 

Mannell, Mary 191 



362 



INDEX. 



Manning, Mrs. Susan P 191 

Manning, Mrs. W. H 202 

Manning, William H 53, 78, 176, 

182, 234, 235, 246. 

Manning & Howland 77 

Manning & Peckham 78 

Manville, Jonas 211 

Manwarring, Annie 87 

Marble, Amanda M 242 

Marble, Jane 252 

Marble, Jennie 242 

Marble, Lizzie M 242 

Marsh, Alice 223 

Marshall, Ellen 223 

Marshall, Lorenzo 98, 289, 303 

Marston, Clara 223 

Marstcn & Tibbits 329 

Martha's Vineyard 134 

Martin, Clarence L 191, 205 

Martin, Josiah A 177, 191 

Martin, Julia A 192 

Martin, Mrs. Cynthia L 192 

Martin, Mrs. Elsie A 192 

Martindale, Stephen. .48. 53, 285, 287 

Marvin, Daniel 77, 177 

Marvin, jr., Daniel. .63, 76,86,175,181 

Marvin, sr., Daniel 53, 55, 175 

Marvin, Valentine. .55, 65,77, 96,129, 

175, 176, 182. 

Mason, Daniel 75 

Mastin, Henry V. W 175 

Mateer, W. Newton 223 

Matthews, James 176, 192 

Matthews, Mrs. Alice 192 

Mattison, Brother 64 

Mayfield, Thomas 4, 5 

Moxon, Clara 211 

May, Charles D 192 

May, E. H 203 

May, Earl H 192 

May, Edwin A 192 

May, Emma J 192 

May, Libbie B 192 

May, Mary L 192, 196 

May, Mrs. Julia A 192 

McAllister, Laura 242 

McAllister, Mrs 13 

McBurney, "William.. . 17, 18,25,53,174 
McCabe, Alida 242 



McCabe, C. C 314, 318 

McCabe, James 246 

McCabe, James E 242 

McCabe, Sarah 242 

McCabe, William 242 

McChesney, Barbara 232 

McChesney, Carrie E 192 

McChesney, Catharine 223 

McChesney, Charlotte 223 

McChesney, Emma 242 

McChesney, Ensign. . . . 298, 299, 314 

McChesney, Hester 262 

McChesney, Martha J 223 

McClellan, Catharine 279 

McClintock, John . 154. 

McClure, Elizabeth 223 

McComber, William 75 

McCrea, David N 262 

McCrea, Jane 262 

McCrea, William 262 

McCune, Minnie 242 

McCune, Mary 242 

McDonald, John 262 

McDonald, Mary 262 

McDougall, R. H 278 

McDougall, Charlotte 252 

McGill, Anna 262 

McGill, James 262 

McGill, Susan 262 

Mcllvaine, Nancy 223 

McKay, Catharine 252 

McKean, John 232 

McKean, S 301 

McKee, Martha 242 

McKeever, Elizabeth 262 

McKeever, William 262 

McKinney, John H 262 

McKinney, Joseph 262 

McKinney, Susan 262 

McKittrick, Mrs. Carrie 192 

McKittrick, W. H 192 

McKnight, Mattie .252 

McLaughlin, Clara P 242 

McLaughlin, Elizabeth 242 

McLaughlin, John F 182 

McLean, Elizabeth 262 

McLean, George 262 

McManus, William 199 

McMaster's Familv 206 



INDEX. 



363 



McMasters, Mrs. Nancy 192 

McMurray, Charlotte E 192 

McNider, Mary 192 

McNiven, Jane H 262 

McNiven, Malcolm 262 

McPherson, Alexander 137, 139, 

141, 311. 

McPherson, Catharine 262 

McPherson, Eliza 211 

McPherson, James A. . .234, 235, 242 

McPherson, jr., James A 242 

McPherson, Maggie 242 

McPherson, Minnie 242, 245 

McPherson, Mrs. J. A .169, 171, 246, 

267. 

McPherson, Sarah G 242 

Meachem, John 232 

Meachem, Lydia 232 

Meachem, Mrs. Charles 232 

Meachem, Susie 232 

Meachem, Thomas 232 

Mead, Hattie L 223 

Mead, Mary 262 

Mead, M. B 290 

Mead, Thaddeus 206 

Mead, William E 192 

Mead, Zachariah 262 

Meader, Margaret 242 

Meads, William 118 

Mealey, Milford 262 

Mealey, Susan 262 

Mechanicville 134 

Meek, Abraham 232 

Meek, Nancy 232 

Meek, Timothy 232 

Meeker, Berea O 282, 283, 286, 

290. 

Meeker, Mrs. Mary E 192 

Meeker, Mrs. Ruth A 192 

Meeker, William A 192 

Meeker, W. H 301 

Meeting, Class. . .9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 

18, 81, 82, 319. 

Meeting, First Camp 319 

Meetings, Holiness 319 

Meeting-house, First Methodist 

in America 6 

Meeting-house, Presbyterian.... 9 
Meetings, Quarterly 22, 319 



Members : 
Fifth Avenue M. E. Church, 217-226 
German First M.E. Church, 271-273 

Grace M. E. Church 253-266 

Levings M. E. Church .... 250-253 
Pawling Avenue M.E. Church, 210- 

212. 
State Street M. E. Church. . 187-195 
Third Street M. E. Church, 231-232 

Trinity M. E. Church 237-244. 

Zion A. M. E. Church 278-279 

Membership 287-300, 312, 313 

Mercer, Dorcas 31 

Merchant, G. W. (Albany). . 138, 311 

Merchant, G. W. (Troy) 138, 311 

Meredith, R. R 291 

Meredith, Samuel 295, 296, 297, 

298, 304, 305, 307. 

Merrick, Alice A 252 

Merrill, Carlton H 192 

Merrill, Sarah T 192 

Merrill, Stephen M 317 

Merwin, Samuel 54, 83, 286, 288 

Mesick, Henry 192 

Mesick, Mrs. Emeline 192 

Mesick, Rosannah 279 

Methodism. . . .12, 13, 18, 21, 27,121, 
170, 331, 332. 

Methodism, Centenary of 159 

Methodists 5, 6, 170, 315, 316 

Meyer, Elizabeth 272 

Meyer, George 294 

Meyer, Jakob 272 

Meyer, Margarethe 272 

Michael, Frank 192 

Mickle, Alsada 262 

Mickle, Annie 262 

Mickle, Hattie 262 

Mickle, Isaac 262 

Mickle, Jennie 262 

Mickle, Kate E 262 

Mickle, Mary 262 

Mickle, Mattie 267 

Middletown 13, 33 

Middleton, Emma F 262 

Middleton, Maggie S 262 

Middleton, Sophia N 262 

Mielenz, 'Charles F 242 

Mielinz, Clara 242- 



3 6 4 



INDEX. 



Mielenz, Florence 242 

Mielenz, Ida 242 

Mielenz, Salome 272 

Migard, John 252 

Miller, Addie E 223 

Miller, Adelbert 242 

Miller, Alcena 223 

Miller, Dorothea 272 

Miller, Emma 263 

Miller, Jennie 263 

Miller, John 242, 272 

Miller, Julia C 242 

Miller, Libbie 223 

Miller, Lucy 279 

Miller, Margaret 223 

Miller, Sarah A 223 

Miller, U 199 

Miller, W. A 289 

Milliken, Arthur 47, 174, 181 

Milliman, Alida 263 

Millington, Margaret 252 

Millington, William 252 

Millville. . . ." 17 

Mina 13 

Ministers, Deceased Methodist. ..282, 

283, 285. 
Ministers, Methodist. . . .287-300, 304, 

3°5- 

Minkler, Albert 211, 213 

Minkler, Charles .211 

Minkler, Eveline 211 

Minkler, Lizzie 211 

Minkler, Mrs. Albert 213 

Minkler, Mrs. Evaline 213 

Mission, Batestown 112 

Mission, Green Island 112 

Mission, Ladies' 309 

Mission, Stow's Hill 309 

Mitchell, Ann 242 

Mitchell, George 242 

Mitchell, Joseph 10 

Mix, Carrie 263 

Mix, Harriet R 263 

Mix, Silas C 263 

Moelling, Peter A 296 

Moeske, Albert 272 

Moeske, Anna 272 

Moll, Mary 211 

Moll, Robert 211 



Mone, Amanda M 242 

Monroe, Stephen 53, 86, 102, 175 

Moon, Jennie 263 

Moon, John E 263 

Moon, Sarah J 263 

Mooney, James A 192 

Moore, Anna 242 

Moore, Delia 242 

Moore, Ella A 192 

Moore, Fannie 242 

Moore, George F 311 

Moore, Henry 232 

Moore, Lewis K 223 

Moore, Lillian 263 

Moore, Susan 279 

Moore & Nims. . . 329 

Moorfields 4 

Moran, Ella 242 

Moran, Sarah 211 

Morand, Emeline M 192 

Morand, Ida L 192 

Morand, Mrs. Mary 192 

Morand, Ulysses G 192 

Morand, William 192 

More, George W 242 

Morehouse, G. C 294 

Morey, Charles E. .145, 184, 185, 192, 

197, 3 IO > 3«- 

Morey, Clara A 192, 197 

Morey, George W 192 

Morey, Manley W.177, 178, 184, 185, 

192, 202. 

Morey, Mrs Charles E 167, 197 

Morey, Mrs. Charlotte A 192 

Morey, Mrs. Susan M 192 

Morgan, Anna 223 

Morgan, C 291, 308 

Morgan, Ephraim 198 

Morris, G. W 178 

Morris, Mattie 211 

Morris, Sarah 263 

Mors, Elisha 203 

Morse, Caroline 263 

Morse, Lewis T 263 

Morton, John 232 

Morton, Sarah 252 

Morton, William 252 

Mosenus, Henry M 263 

Moses, Elizabeth 242 



INDEX. 



365 



Mosher, Martha A 192 

Mott, Emma 223 

Mott, Caroline 223 

Moulton, J 201 

Muckle, Harry L 242 

Muckle, Mary B 242 

Muench, Mary 272 

Mulford, J. N 205, 314 

Mulholland, Charles H 242 

Mulholland, Ellen 242 

Mulholland, Emily 242 

Mulholland, Kate M 242 

Mullen, Sarah 223 

Munn, Lewis. 201 

Munro, John 192 

Munro, John C 192 

Munro, Lizzie 192 

Munro, Mary 211 

Munro, A 309 

Myers, Carrie 263 

Myers, Carrie I 192 

Myers, Daniel 252 

Myers, Hattie 192 

Myers, Maria M 192 

Myers, Mrs. Harriet E 192 

Myers, Mrs. Sarah 192 

Nail Works 93 

Naylor, Anna 192 

Naylor, George W 192 

Naylor, James 192 

Naylor, Maud 192 

Naylor, Mrs. Emma 192 

Naylor, Sarah 192 

Neal, Marietta 263 

Nehrdich, Johanna 272 

Nehrdich, John 272 

Nelson, Minnie 192 

Nelson, Robert 204 

Nessels, Ratie 263, 267 

Newburyport 5 

Newcomb, Wesley 63 

Newman, John P 317, 335 

New Rochelle 7 

New Year's Day 14 

New York City 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 

Nichols, Elizabeth H 263 

Nichols, Emma 263 



Nichols, 1 256, 257 

Nichols, Isaac 263 

Nichols, Ruby 263 

Nickerson, Hattie 263 

Nickerson, Nettie E 263 

Nieson, Anna May 192 

Nieson, Tina 192 

Niles, Irene 263 

Ninde, William X 317 

Noble, C. F 294, 295, 296, 308 

Noble, Edward 98, 104, 289 

Noll, Carl C 272 

Noll, Ernestine 272 

Norris, Anna 223 

Norris, George 223 

Norris, Mary E 223 

Norsworthy, Emma 263 

North, Amanda 223 

Northup, Addie S 263 

Norton, Ethel 192 

Norton Mrs. Estella 193 

Norton, R. S, 203 

Noyes, Abby-. 42 

Noyes, Richard 289 

Oakley, P. C 88, 286, 288 

O'Brien, Carrie 223 

Odell, Celia 193 

Official Boards : 
Fifth Avenue M. E. Church,2i4,2i5 
German M. E. Church, First, 268, 269 

Grace^M. E. Church 256, 257 

Levings M. E. Church. . . .248, 249 
Pawling Avenue M. E. Church, 208, 

209. 
State Street M. E. Church, 174,175, 

176, 177, 184, 185. 
Third St. M. E. Church. . .228, 229 

Trinity, M. E. Church 234, 235 

Zion Church, A. M. E 276, 277 

Ogden, Welthy 63 

Oglethorpe, Governor 2 

Olin, Dr 68 

Olmstead, Mary 232 

Olmstead, Sarah 223 

O'Reilly, Ella 263 

Organ 60 

Osbon, AbiatharM. 54, 83.175,286.288 



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INDEX. 



Osbon, E. S 138, 139, 311 

Osborn, Henry 252 

Osborn, Sarah 252 

Osborne, Hattie 263 

Osborne, Jane D 263 

Osborne, John 263 

Osborne, Mrs. Elizabeth T 193 

Osgrove, W. B 286, 295, 296 

Osterhout, Virginia 252 

Osterhout, W. A 252 

Ostrander, Amelia R 193 

Ostrander, Daniel 46, 47, 174 

Ostrander, Gideon 263 

Ostrander, Mrs. Amelia R 197 

Ostrander, Sarah A 263 

Ostrom, Thomas L. . .53, 87, 175, 181 

Outhet, Annie 242 

Owens, Frances 242 

Owens, Phillip 277 

Oxford 1, 170 



Packard, Chauncey D. .193, 203, 206 

Packard, Lillie 193 

Paddock, CM 223 

Paddock, Mary 242 

Paddock, Orinda E 242 

Pagett, Moses 248, 249, 252, 254 

Pagett, Mrs. Moses 252 

Paine, Mrs. John 42 

Paine, Mrs. Sarah G 193 

Palmer, Albert E. ..256, 257, 263, 267 

Palmer, Alice 211 

Palmer, A. Lincoln 223 

Palmer, Emma 263 

Palmer, Evaline 211 

Palmer, Harriet 263 

Palmer, James 263 

Palmer, Mrs. Alice 213 

Palmetier, Catharine E 193 

Parker Delia 279 

Parker, Henrietta 223 

Parkiss, Lottie M 263 

Parks, Julia 223 

Parks, Stephen 177, 182, 202, 291 

Parnnel, Mary 243 

Pasco, Francis H . . 193 

Pasco, Mary Jane 193 

Pasco, Mrs. Caroline. . . , 193 



Pasco, Mrs. Robina 193 

Pasco, Sarah 193 

Pasco, William 193 

Pasko, Mary 263 

Patchke, Carrie 223 

Patterson, Margaret 223 

Patterson, Mrs. Hattie C 193 

Patterson, Mrs. T. W. P 233 

Patterson, Robert 75 

Patterson, Thomas 193 

Patterson, T. W. P 184, 185, 204, 

228, 229, 233. 

Pattison, John A 243 

Patton, Annie 193 

Paul, Bertha 263 

Paul, Catharine 263 

Paul, Philip 263 

Pawling, Albert 9, 198 

Payf er, George, M 223 

Payne, Mary 232 

Payne, William 232 

Peabody, Andrew 193 

Peabody, Charles E 205 

Peabody, Joseph 223 

Peabody, Helen E 193 

Peabody, Mary A 223 

Peabody, Mrs. Sarah A 193 

Peabody, Samuel 206 

Peabody, Samuel J. . .177,178,193,202 

Pease, Lewis 29, 30, 286, 287 

Peck, Athelia N 263 

Peck, Eleazer A 151, 155 

Peck, Jesse T 127, 151, 153 

Peck, William E 263 

Peck & Hillman 328, 329, 330 

Peckham, John S 77 

Peckham, Phcebe 193 

Peckham, Reuben . . .62, 77, 78, 120, 

129, 176, 177, 182, 202, 206, 326. 

Peckham, Mrs. Mary 193 

Peckham, Samuel 77 

Peckham, William M. 184,185,193,205 

Peebles, Abby 42 

Peebles, Hugh 199 

Peek, Florence 223 

Pegg, C. M - ..293, 294 

Peirce, Chauncey 42 

Pennington, Ida 252, 254 

Pennington, James 249, 252, 254 



INDEX. 



367 



IPennington, Mary 252 

!Pennington, Mrs. James 254 

Pennington, William 252 

Penrose, Anna 223 

People, Colored 56, 57, 118 

JPercey Lillie 193 

Percey, Effie 193 

Perrigo, Fannie 211 

Perry, Annie 223 

.Perry, Bennett 223 

Perry, Mary 223 

Pettiford, William H 277 

Teterman, Ida M 279 

Petersburgh 1 34 

IPeterson, Mary 243 

Peterson, Mary J 279 

IPetriam, H 193 

Pettis, William 193 

^Pettit, Abbie 223 

Pettit, Alice 223 

Pettit, Arthur 223 

Pettit, David .H 223 

Pettit, Earl S 211 

Pettit, George W 208, 209, 211 

.Pettit, Hannah 13, 17 

Pettit, Jennie 223, 227 

^Pettit, Jennie M 211 

Tettit, Phineas S 214, 215, 223 

Pettit, Eunice C 223 

Tews, renting 57, 58 

Peyton, Jennie D 193 

^Phillips, Henry 223 

Phillips, Mary E 223 

IPhillips, Mrs. Clara 193 

Thillips, Ralph 177, 204 

^Phillips, Zebulon. .282, 283, 286, 292, 

3°3> 3 2 6. 

Philp, Helen M 263 

Philp, Mrs. Helen M 267 

Phoebus, William 29, 286, 287 

Pickering, Sarah F 223 

Pier, Orrin 75 

.Pierce, Bishop 152 

Pierce, Charles W 135 

"Pigeons 24, 170 

Pike, William H. . .214, 215, 223, 227 

IPilkinton, John 1 1 1 

Pilling, Elizabeth 263 

Pinney, Ann E 263 



Pinney, Cyrus 263 

Pitcher, George S 252 

Pitcher, Libbie 223 

Pitcher, Martha 252 

Pitman, Charles 98 

Pitts, Mary 223 

Pittsfield, 10 

Pittstown 22 

Place, St. Paul's 44 

Piatt, Moses 198 

Plum, Mr 14 

Plum, Mrs 13 

Plumb, Lena 263 

Plumb, Walter D 263, 267 

Podmore, Edward 252, 254 

Podmore, Eva J 193 

Podmore, J. W. F. . 184, 185, 193, 196, 
197, 203. 

Podmore, Mrs. S. Alice 193 

Podmore, Mrs. Anne G 197 

Poestenkill 134 

Pollard, Catharine 243 

Pollard, Fannie 243 

Pollard, Maria 243 

Pollard, Mary, .243 

Pollock, George 243 

Pollock, Isaac 243. 246 

Pollock, Jane 263 

Pollock, jr., James 243 

Pollock, John A, 263 

Pollock, Lottie L 243 

Pollock, Millie 243 

Pomeroy, Benjamin . . ..283, 286, 289 

Pomeroy, D. W 193 

Pomeroy, Mrs. Marion 193 

Popple, Henry A 193 

Popple, Mrs. Lizzie A 193 

Population of Troy 312, 313 

Porter, Flora E 193 

Porter, Thomas 201, 184 

Potliyan, Emmanuel H 184, 193 

Potliyan, Jacob 193 

Potter, John 252 

Potter, Sarah 252 

Powell, Mark K 224 

Powell, Mary . 243 

Powell, Rachel 252 

Prankard, Carrie 263 

Prankard, Frances 263 



3 68 



INDEX. 



Pratt, Annie E. . . 224 

Pratt, Charity 224 

Pratt, Helen F 263 

Pratt, Julia 227 

Pratt, Julia A 224 

Pratt, John P 224 

Pratt, Lulu May 263 

Prayer- meetings. .9, 14, 32, 35,38,83, 

105, 107, 108. 

Preachers, Lay 4, 319 

Preachers, Local .174, 175, 176, 177, 

209, 228, 234, 249, 257, 268. 

Preachers, Methodist 10, 11, 12 

Preaching, Field 319 

Prell, Henrietta 272 

Prentice, Charles C 224 

Prentice, Parmelia M 224 

Presbyterians, 18, 19, 24, 38, 39, 41, 42 

Price, Annie 252 

Price, Charles. .. . , 252 

Price, Elizabeth 252 

Price, Letitia 252 

Proper, Cornelia 263 

Proudfit, Andrew 198 

Pulis, Abram .224 

Pulis, A. W 214, 215 

Pulis, Catharine 224 

Pulis, Jennie 164, 167, 224 

Pulis, Jessie 224 

Pulis, Nellie. 224 

Pulis, Olive 224 

Pulsifer, Stella 193 

Pultz, Elizabeth M 163 

Pulver, Mrs. Lottie 193 

Purdy, Jennie 252 

Purdy, John H 252 

Purdy, Mrs. John H 254 

Purdy, Reuben 200 

Putnam, W 200 

Quackenbush, Alice 263 

Quackenbush, Emma E 263 

Quackenbush, Mrs. J. T 158, 267 

Quackenbush, R. . .138, 139, 203, 311 

Queal, Alice 204 

Queal, Arthur D 193 

Queal, Mary .193 

Queal, Mary M 197 



Queal, Mrs. Alice 193 

Quigley, Mary H 224 

Quigley, William H 224 

Quigley, Mrs. W. H 227 

Quigley, W. H 227 

Quinlan, J. Wesley 295, 296, 305 

Quivey, Alta 224 

Rabe, Martha 272 

Raibdey, Christopher 263 

Raibdey, Dora 264 

Raibdey, Frank 264 

Raibdey, Jacob 264 

Raibdey, May 264 

Raibdey, William. .264 

Railroad, R. & S 134, 135 

Raisch, Maria .272 

Randall, Gertrude 252 

Randol, Enos 181 

Ranken, Sabrina 224 

Ranken, William 224 

Ranken, H 330 

Ranney, E 201 

Ransom, Halsey W 67, 286, 290 

Raport, Louis 193 

Ratcliffe, Samuel F 252 

Ratcliffe, Sarah 252 

Ratoon, Minnie 224 

Ray, Elizabeth 252 

Ray, James 252 

Raymond, Aaron 198 

Read, Thomas „ .52, 199 

Redfield, Mrs. Mary 193 

Reed, Luther E 264, 267 

Reed, Martha J 264 

Reichard, Charles S .243 

Reichard, Rosa 243 

Reichard Wallace J 243 

Reid, Isabella 252 

Reilly, Joseph E 243 

Reilly, Mrs. Joseph E 243 

Remick, N. B 314 

Remington, Stephen. .56, 60, 122,288 

Renz, Christine 272 

Repository, Ladies' 76 

Reynolds, Lottie 243 

Reynolds, Nathaniel 224 

Ripple, Kate 243 



INDEX. 



369 



Residences, Episcopal 317 

Revivals. . ..22, 30, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 
49, 54, 55, 59, 6l , 62, 63, 72, 73, 90, 
91, 128, 139, 140, 143, 307, 309. 

Revivalist, The 159 

Rhind, Mrs. Susan P 193 

Rhul, Columbia 264 

Rice, Harry L. D 193 

Rice, Margaret 279 

Rice, Mrs. Carrie E 193 

Rice, William 224 

Rich, Ruth M 224 

Richards, Charles 200 

Richards, Olive 97 

Richardson, Elizabeth M 264 

Richardson, Lena M 264 

Richardson, Mrs. Cornelia 193 

Richardson, Phebe 252 

Richter, Emelie 272 

Richter, Ida 272 

Richter, Louis 268, 269, 272, 274 

Ridgeway, Albion 264 

Ridgeway, Eunice J, 264 

Ridgeway, Joseph 264 

Ridgeway, William 264 

Rifenburgh, Betsey M 211 

Rifenburgh, Frances H 264 

Rifenburgh, Willis B 264 

Rilyea, Mrs. Hattie 193 

Ring, Sarah 224 

Ritta 14 

River, North 7, 8 

Roach, Dora M 224 

Roarke, Kittie 243 

Robbins, William H. . ..102, I04, 176 



Roberts, Bishop 314 

Roberts, Sarah 243 

Robertson, Jessie 252 

Robertson, John 252 

Robertson, Minnie A 224 

Robertson, Thurza 224 

Robinson, H 75 

Robinson, J. H 300 

Robinson, Margaret 243 

Robinson, Mary •. 243 

Robinson, Mrs. J. H . 233 

Rockfellow, Lizzie 193 

Rockfellow, Mrs. Henrietta 193 



Rockfellow, Rosa 193 

Rockfellow, William. 201 

Roeck, Ernest 272 

Roeck, Maria 272 

Roga, Harry 193 

Roga, Joseph B 193 

Roga, Mrs. Carrie 193 

Rogers, Charles 252 

Rogers, Cornelia 264 

Rogers, Daisy 194 

Rogers, Helen M 194 

Rogers, John W 224 

Rogers, Levi 50, 181 

Rogers, Lillian F 194 

Rogers, Marie E 252 

Rogers, Mary A 224 

Rogers, Mrs. R. A 224 

Rogers, Frank 264 

Rogers, Thomas 224 

Rogers & Rockwell 200 

Ronalds, James 194 

Ronalds, Mrs. Clarissa . . . . = 194 

Rood, Lucy 224 

Rood, Ogden 328 

Roome, Christian H 194 

Rosa, Catharine 272 

Rosa, Moritz 272 

Rose, A. C 151, 297, 298 

Rose Jennie S 194 

Ross, Lawyer. 87 

Ross, William 46, 47, 286, 287 

Roth, Charles A 243 

Roth, Edith 243 

Roth, Ida F 243 

Roth, John N 243 

Roth, Laura 243 

Roth, Lewis 234, 235 

Roth, Lewis E 243 

Roth, Mary 243 

Roth, William 243 

Round Lake. .135, 136, 147, 148, 149, 
150, 151. 

Rouse, Amelia 232 

Rouse, Frankie 232 

Rouse, W. W 232 

Rousseau, Alexander 200 

Rowe, Ella 264 

Rowe, Francis J 224 

Rowe, Lucretia 224 



25 



37° 



INDEX 



Rowe, Lucy, A. W 224 

Rowe, Mary 214, 224, 227 

Rowe, Mrs. W. H 167 

Rowe, W. H 214, 215, 224 

Rowe, jr., W. H 224 

Rowles, D. Henry 224 

Rowles, Mary R 224 

Rowley, C. W 214, 215, 224 

Rowley, Mrs. Ida 194 

Rowley, Sarah A 252 

Rules, General 319 

Rulison, Mrs. W. P 163 

Rumsey, Levi 198 

Rush, Mrs. R 169, 171 

Rush, Rebecca 211 

Russell, Harriet A 194 

Russell, James 47, 50, 181 

Russell, Mrs. Harriet II 194 

Russell, Tracy & Co 198 

Russum, J. C 299 

Ruth, Caroline 272 

Ruth, Carrie 264 

Ruth, Edward 243 

Ruth, George A 264 

Ruth, John A 243 

Ruth, Maggie 243 

Ruth, Mrs. George A 267 

Ruth, P 268, 269, 272 

Rylan, Edwin 243 

Rylan, Nellie 243 

Rynders, Harriet E 264 

Rynders, Isaiah 264 

Rynders, Lottie 264 

Rynders, Mrs. Lizzie 194 

Rynders, Nellie 194 

Salisbury, Sarah E 264 

Sanders, John 198 

Sanderson, Emma 264 

Sandlake 134, 135 

Sandy Hill 76 

Sandford, Peter P. . ..31, 34, 286, 287 

Sandford, Luman A 66, 176, 289 

Sanford, Frederick A 194 

Sanford, W. F 266 

Sargent, Samuel G 112 

Saunders, William 53, 176, 177 

Sauter, John 1 14 



Sawyer, J. E. C. .74, 164, 184, 185 
196, 205, 299, 300, 301, 307. 

Sawyer, Lucy S 164, 165, 194 

Sawyer, Mrs. Alice 194, 204 

Saxe, Charles J 53, 177, 182 

Saxe, James A 194 

Saxe, John W I94 

Saxe, Mary E 194, 196, 197 

Saxe, Mrs. Elien G 194 

Saxe, William A 194 

Sayers, Charles J 264 

Sayers, Emma J 264 

Schaal, Christina 272 

Schaal, L 268, 269 

Schaal, Louis 272 

Schaghticoke 134 

Schaibel, Adam 272 

Schaibel, Anna 272 

Schaibel, Christian 1 16, 272 

Schaibel, Maria 272 

Schenectady 45 

Schermerhorn, Catharine 243 

Schilling, Elisabeth 272 

Schlachter, Carrie 243, 246 

Schlachter, Elias 273 

Schlachter, Helene 273 

Schlachter, Mary 243 

Schmah, H 268, 269 

Schmah, Heinrich 273 

Schmah, Henry 273 

Schmah, Mina 273 

Schmah, Rosalie .273 

Scholefield, A 303 

Scholl, Caroline . 273 

Schoneig, Carl 273 

Schoolmacher, Nettie 279 

Schultz, Gottlob 273 

Schulz, Anna 273, 274 

Schutt, Annie G 194 

Schutt, Frank P 194 

Schutt, Mrs Anna M 194 

Sch wall, Carrie 245 

Scoby, David 18. 198 

Scoby, Samuel 18, 23, 30 

Scott, Anna E 194 

Scott, Auline 224 

Scott, Bishop 117, 314 

Scott, Mary A 279 

Scott, W. A 276, 277, 279 



INDEX. 



>7i 



Scribner & Co., A. W 329 

Scudder, Moses L 55, 75 

Seaman, Mary 224 

Searles, Mrs. Jennie 194 

Searles, Mrs. Olive 194 

Searles, William 194 

Seats, Free 57, 58 

Seeman, Emma 194 

Seewald, Anna 273, 274 

Seewald, Carl 273 

Seewald, Elisabeth 273 

Seewald, Katie 273 

Seidel, J 293, 295 

Seidel, J. F 273, 298 

Seidel, Wilhelmina 273 

Seissing, Lena 273 

Seller, Bertha 264 

Seminary, Governeur Wesleyan, 76 

Sendell, Emma J 264 

Senter, M. Alverson. . . .98, 139, 141, 

282, 283, 286, 294, 295, 308, 311. 

Service, Alfierrett 211 

Service, Amelia 211 

Service, Margaret 211 

Service, Retta 213 

Service, William H 211 

Severin, Louisa 273 

Seymour, Minnie 194 

Seymour, Mary E 194 

Seymour, Robert 194, 204 

Seymour, Truman. . .58, 68, 107, 117, 

282, 283, 286, 288. 

Sexton, Charles H 2-24 

Sexton, H. C 293, 295 

Shafer, C. E 264 

Shafer, Clarence E 224 

Shafer, Eliza 224 

Shaperson, Henry 175 

Shappo, Mrs. C. B 194 

Sharp, Augusta. 243, 246 

Sharp, George E 243 

Sharp, Libbie 264 

Sharp, Minnie 243 

Sharp, Oakley 243 

Sharp, Sarah 243 

Sharpe, George H 211 

Sharpe, Jane 211 

Shaver, Antoinette 243 

Shaver, Charles 243 



Shaver, Jennie 243 

Shaver, Cornelia 243 

Shaver, Margaret A 264 

Shaver, Norman . . . 248, 249, 252, 254 

Shaver, Susie 254 

Shaw, Charles H 194 

Shaw, Mary C 194 

Shaw, Mrs. Jennie 194 

Shaw, Myra 232, 233 

Sheffer, Chauncey P 264 

Sheffer, Jennie 264 

Sheffers, Lewina B 224 

Sheldon, Charity 243 

Sheldon, Elisha 199 

Sheldon, James 199 

Sheldon, I. W 243 

Sheldon, Willis 1 243 

Shepherd, Hannah 243 

Sherwood, Cyrus 194 

Sherwood, C. A 205 

Sherwood, E. B 256, 257, 264 

Sherwood, Sarah A 224 

Sherwood, Lucia M 224 

Sherman, Charles. . . .88, 286, 288,289 

Sherman, David 200 

Sherman, Sarah J 264 

Shetland, Ida 232 

Shetland, J 228, 229 

Shetland, John 228, 232 

Shetland, Kitty 232 

Shetland, Lily 232 

Shetland, Mary 232 

Shetland, Maggie 232 

Shires, Hattie. 264 

Shires, Mrs. Ella 194 

Shires, Rebecca 264 

Shirts 56 

Shooks, Marietta 224 

Shout, Lucinda 232 

Shroder, Charles J 228, 229, 232 

Shroder, Kate 232 

Sibley, Carrie 243 

Sibley, George 243 

Sibley, Nettie 243, 245 

Sibley, N. H , 243 

Sibley, Mrs. N. H 246 

Sibley, Nicholas H 235, 246 

Sibley, Sarah 243 

Sibley, Sarah A 243 



372 



INDEX. 



Sickler, Maria 243 

Simmons, Annie 264 

Simmons, Annie F 211 

Simmons, Carrie 243 

Simmons, Cecelia 279 

Simmons, Eliza 252 

Simmons, Josie 212 

Simmons, Lizzie 264 

Simmons, Louisa 212 

Simmons, Potter 209 

Simmons, Potter S 212 

Simmons, Stephen 212 

Simmons, Theodore 279 

Simmons, Willard 244 

Simms, George J 279 

Simpson, Almira 224 

Simpson, Annie 232 

Simpson, Matthew. .71, no, in, 149, 
151, 153, 314. 

Simpson, E. W 214, 215 

Simpson, Francis 244 

Simpson, Hattie V 244 

Simpson, James 232 

Simpson, Mrs. E. W. .158,164,167,227 

Singing, Choir 47, 60, 92 

Siples, Jacob 232 

Siples, Warren 232 

Sivers, Mrs. Lina 194 

Skane, Patrick F 264 

Skene/ George 298, 311, 314, 335 

Skene, Mrs. George 314 

Skilton, A. J 53, 64, 175, 176 

Skilton, James A 63 

Slason, James 311 

Slason, J. L 145 

Slater, Anna 212 

Slavery question. . . . 123, 124, 125,126 

Slaves 123, 124, 125, 126 

Sleight, Mary 224 

Sleight, Roxy 224 

Sliter, Augustus D 244 

Sliter, Sarah C 244 

Smalley, Phebia 279 

Slocum, Charlotte E 224 

Slocum, H. W 297 

Smith, Anna 264 

Smith, Benjamin 252 

Smith, Benjamin R 264 

Smith, Birdie 279 



Smith, Catharine 252 

Smith, Charles 224 

Smith, Edgar 212 

Smith, Elizabeth 224 

Smith, Emeline 224 

Smith, Emily 224 

Smith, Fannie 244 

Smith, George .... 112, 174, 181, 201 

Smith, George E 224, 277, 300 

Smith, Hannah 224, 244 

Smith, Ida M 264 

Smith, J 248, 249 

Smith, James 252 

Smith, J. G 296 

Smith, James M. .18, 21, 48, 286, 287 

Smith, Jane 252 

Smith, Jennie 264 

Smith, John 264 

Smith, Julia 224 

Smith, Lillian H 244 

Smith, Mary 264, 267 

Smith, Mary J 225 

Smith, Mrs. James 254 

Smith, Mrs. William E 246 

Smith, Sanford 139, 141, 311 

Smith, S. Lillie 225 

Smith, Sarah E 225 

Smith, Simon 200 

Smith, Susannah 264 

Smith, W. E 145, 234, 235 

Smith, William E. .234, 244, 245, 311 

Smith, William H 94, 293, 309 

Smith, W. L 138 

Smith, William L 311 

Snively, T. A. 314 

Snow, Mrs. Alice P 194 

Snow, Samuel O 194 

Snyder, A 208 

Snyder, Abby J 225 

Snyder, Almon 209, 212, 213 

Snyder, Cora 225 

Snyder, Ella 225 

Snyder, Ida 225, 252 

Snyder, James E 253 

Snyder, Jessie 232 

Snyder, Margaret E 225 

Snyder, Mary 264 

Snyder, Mrs. James. E 254 

Snyder, William R 225 



INDEX. 



373 



Societies, Ladies' Aid. . 167, 168, 169, 1 70 

Society, Children's Home 45 

Society, First Methodist 319 

Society, First Missionary 319 

Society, Missionary 32, 46, 47 

Society, Women's Foreign Mis- 
sionary 158, 159, 160 

Society, Women's Home. . . . 164, 167 

South Troy 93, 96, 97 

Southwick, I. W 264 

Spaulding, Mrs. Clara M 194 

Spencer, Elizabeth 63 

Spencer, Mrs. Lillie A 194 

Spicer, Anna 167 

Spicer, Anna E 204 

Spicer, Ann Eliza 194 

Spicer, Sarah J 194, 204 

Spicer, Tobias 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 

93, 282, 283, 286, 287, 290, 303. 

Squire, William 200 

Squires, Elizabeth P 164 

Squires, O. J 164 

Staley, Mrs. Carrie T 194 

Stanley, Eames 225 

Stanley, Jane 225 

Stanley, Mary 225 

Stanley, Rosanna 225 

Stannard, Alice M 225 

Stannard, Carrie D 225 

Stannard, Henrietta 225 

Stannard, John D 225 

Starks, Amos H 63 

Starks, D 286, 303 

Starks, Desevignia 282, 283 

Starks, H. A 74, 76, 314 

Starks, H. L 90, 286, 288 

Starks, Independence 175 

Starks, Ralph E 194 

Starks, Ralph J 194, 202 

Starks, Mrs. Elizabeth 194 

Starr, Margaret 225 

Starr, William 225 

Staunton, Elmer E 225 

Stebbins, L. D 286, 290, 291 

Steele, Allen ... 66, 282, 283, 286, 289 

Stephens, Benjamin 22 

Sterry, Eva 264 

Sterry, Laura A 225 

Sterry, Nancy 264 



Sterry, Urwin D 257, 264 

Stevens, Mary A 264 

Stevens, Mary E 264 

Stevenson, Emily 232 

Stevenson, John 232 

Stevenson, Mrs. John 232 

Stevenson, W.J 73, 74, 298, 314 

Stevenson, Mrs. W. J 314 

Stewards : 

Fifth Avenue M. E. Church. . . .214 
German M. E. Church, First. . .268 

Grace M. E. Church 257 

Levings M. E. Church 249 

Pawling Avenue M. E. Church. 209 
State Street M. E. Church. 174, 175, 

176, 177, 178, 184. 
Third Street M. E. Church,. . . .228 

Trinity M. E. Church 234 

Zion Church, A. M. E 217 

Stewart, Alex 198 

Stewart, Bessie 194 

Stewart, Edward S 199 

Stewart, Mary F 225 

Stewart, William 93 

Stickley, Anna M 273 

Stickley, Elisabeth 273 

Stillman, Chester 212 

Stillman, Josephine 212 

Stillman, Mrs. Josephine 213 

Stillman, S. L 91, 286, 289 

Stillman, Roscoe 212 

Stillwater 133 

Stone, George A. . 177, 1.78,. 182, 1&4, 
185, 202. 

Stone, Isabella H 244 

Stone, Kate A 225 

Stone, Mrs. Mary A 194 

Stout, E. S 282, 283, 286 

Stout, Edward L 194 

Stout, Mary Julia 194 

Stout, Mrs. May R 194 

Stover, Ensign 282, 283, 286, 293, 

307, 3o8. 
Subscriptions, first Meeting-house, 25, 

198, 199, 200, 201. 
Subscriptions, State Street Stone 

Church and Chapel 202-205 

Subscriptions, Wesleyan Univer- 
sity 206 



374 



INDEX. 



Sumer, Thomas 199 

Summerfield, John 

Sunday-schools. . . .42, 43, 44, 45, 96, 
97, 100, 101, 104, no, in, 112, 116, 
203, 319. 

Fifth Avenue M. E 227 

German M. E., First 274 

Grace M. E .267 

Levings M. E 254 

Pawling Avenue M. E 213 

State Street M. E. . .42, 45, 196, 197 

Third Street M. E 233 

Trinity M. E 245, 246 

Zion A. M. E 280 

Survoy, Ellen 279 

Sutton, Nancy 232 

Suydam, Henry 249, 253 

Suydam, Mary 253 

Swahlen, John 291 

Swallow, Steamboat 63 

Swan, Delia 225, 232, 233 

Swart, Elizabeth 244 

Swart, Henry G 244 

Swart, Mary 244 

Swart, Mrs. H. G 246 

Swartwout, Mary C 225 

Swartz, Rev .114 

Swasey, E. R 112 

Swasey, Samuel 199 

Swayze, William 29 

Swenson, John 194 

Swenson, Mrs. Ophelia 194 

Sybrandt, W. H 314 

System, Itinerant 319 

Tabernacle 92 

Tackaberry, John 54, 83, 286, 288 

Takakjian, Jacob 195 

Talbot, Samuel Q 7 

Tallman, Isaac W 175, 181 

Tann, Sarah S 195 

Tappan, Mrs. Susan M 195 

Tappan S 204 

Tate, Lizzie 244 

Tate, Tillie 244 

Taylor, Anna A 264 

Taylor, Ella J 264 

Taylor, Emma, 232 



Taylor, Freeman 244. 

Taylor, George 176, 264 

Taylor, Josie 232 

Taylor, Katie M 244 

Taylor, Lucy 232 

Taylor, M. R 204. 

Taylor, Nathan 96, 176 

Taylor, S. L 228, 229, 232,- 233 

Taylor, Sarah 212: 

Taylor, William 195, 314, 317 

Taylor, William G 265 

Temperance 44. 

Templeton, Sarah M 212 

Teuscher, Jacobine 273. 

Thayer, Emma 225 

Thayer, Gussie 225. 

Thayer, Sarah .225. 

Thayer, Sarah A .225. 

Thayer, Walter 225, 

Thicket, Elizabeth .232 

Thicket, Joshua 232 

Thoburn, James M 317 

Thomas, Amelia 244 

Thomas, Emma 279 

Thomas, Isaac 244 

Thomas, J .294 

Thomas, Jacob 293 

Thomas, James A 244. 

Thomas, Leonard -244 

Thomas, Robert G 244 

Thomas, Rosanna 244 

Thompson, Bishop 48 

Thompson, Charles W 182 

Thompson, G. G 204 

Thompson, J. P. .294,296,297,304,305 

Thompson, Mrs. Mary 195 

Thompson, Phebe A 279 

Thompson, Samuel 279 

Thompson, Sarah B 279 

Thompson, Stanley. ........ 181, 199 

Thorn, Salina 265 

Thornton, W. H 265 

Thrall, Luke H 200 

Tibbits, George 45 

Tickets, Sunday-school 44 

Tiffany, Eleanor 225 

Tifft, Elmira K 232 

Tilley, Albert 212 

Tilley, Anna 212 



INDEX. 



375 



Tilley, Charles 212 

Tilley, Edwin 212 

Tilley, Ellen 212 

Tilley, Jessica 212 

Tilley, Martha 212 

Tilley, W. J... 296, 297 

Timmins, Emma. 232 

Titus, Hattie 265 

Titus, John F 279 

Titus, Mattie L 195 

Titus, Piatt 199 

Titus, Thomas A. 265 

Tolmie, Jennie 232 

Tolmie, Martha 232 

Tolmie, Thomas 232 

Tompkins, Bessie 244 

Tompkins, Nehemiah 199 

Tompkins, Sarah 244 

Townsend, Eli... .53, 86, 87, 88, 174, 

175, 181. 

Tracy, Deborah . .225 

Tracy, Jane 232 

Travell, J. K 248, 249, 253 

Travell, Elsie 253 

Travell, Frances 253 

Travell, Mrs. John K .254 

Traver, Benjamin 212 

Traver, Florence 212 

Travis, Alva 212 

Travis, A. H 213 

Travis, Jacob 137, 139, 311 

Tremaine Family in 

Tripp, Hattie L 225 

Trotman, Ann 253 

Trotman, Annie 253 

Trotman, Richard 253 

Trotter, Elizabeth 232 

Troy. .8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 22, 29, 37, 
40, 42, 45, 121, 130, 134, 170, 173. 

Truax, Charles 212 

Trustees : 

Fifth Avenue M. E. Church. . . .214 
German M. E. Church, First. . .268 

Grace M. E. Church 257 

Levings M. E. Church 249 

Pawling Avenue M. E. Church. 209 
State Street M. E. Church. 174, 175, 

176, 177, 178, 181, 182, 183, 184. 
Third Street M. E. Church 228 



Trinity M. E. Church 234 

Zion Church, A. M. E 277 

Tschumi, Fred J 145 

Tucker, J. W 295 

Tucker, William 53, 56, 175 

Tully, William E 225 

Turknett, R. G 195 

Turnbull, Robert 253 

Turner, Emma 232 

Turner, Josiah 232 

Turner, Lavinia 225 

Turner, Mary 232 

Turner, Royal L 225 

Tuthill, Nancy 225 

Tuttle, Eli H , 244, 245 

Tuttle, Emma M 225 

Tuttle, Jennie 244 

Tyler, Charles H 195 

Tyler, Mrs. Carrie T 195 

Tyler, Perry D 265 

Udall, John „ 195 

Uline, James. 175 

Uline, Jonathan N 265 

Uline, Mrs. Sarah M 195 

Uline, Rebecca 225 

University, Troy, 76, 154, 155,156.157 

University, W T esley] 33, 320-330 

University, Wesleyan 156, 206 

Urann, Samuel 195 

Urena, William C 86, 174, 175 

Usher, Bloomfield 138, 139, 311 

Usher, John 83 

Usher, jr., John 138, 139, 311 

Usher, sr., John 138, 311 

Utter, Martha 244 

Utz, Ida 212 

Utz, John A 212 

Utz, Minnie 212 

Vail, Henry 199 

Van Alstyne, Alice 164, 167, 225 

Van Alstyne, Anna G 225 

Van Alstyne, Calsinai 225 

Van Alstyne, G. W. 214, 215, 225,227 
Van Alstyne, Mrs. Gertrude. .169,171 
Van Alstyne, Richard H 225 



376 



INDEX. 



Van Alstyne, Sally E 225 

Van Alstyne, W. L 204, 225 326 

Van Alstyne, jr., W. L 225, 227 

Van Antwerp, Alice 225 

Van Antwerp, Mattie 225 

Van Benschoten, Elizabeth 265 

Van Benschotenjacob 265 

Van Buren, Bradley 195 

Van Buren, Carrie 225 

Van Buren, Catharine 225 

Van Buren, Estelle 279 

Van Buren, Eva 225 

Van Buren, Florence 279 

Van Buren, Lucretia 225 

Van Buren, Mrs. Amy 195 

Van Buren, Rebecca 225 

Van Cott, E. B 139, 141, 311 

Van Cott, Maggie 72, 73 

Vandecar, Ann J 225 

Vandenburgh, C. H. .'. .208, 209, 212 

Vandenburgh,Levinus 200 

Vandenburghjasper M 199 

Vandenburgh, Louisa 212 

Vandercook, Zilphia Z 195 

Vander Heyden, Jacob D 24 

Vanderlip, Elias 15, 286, 287 

Vanderlip, S. S, 176 

Vanderpool, Adelbert 212 

Vanderpool, Agnes 212 

Vanderpool, Eliza 244 

Vanderpool, John 212 

Vanderpool, Lucinda R 212 

Vandervoort, Abbie J 265 

Vandervoort, Adrian 265 

Vandervoort, Anna 265 

Vandervoort Charles 265 

Vandervoort, F. D 256, 257, 265 

Van Deusen, Charles B 225 

Van Deusen, J. J 176, 177, 296 

Van Deusen, John P 265 

Van Deusen, May E 265 

Van Deusen, Mrs. Hannah 195 

Van Deusen, Retta 225 

Van Deusen, Sarah 226 

Van Deusen, William 265 

Van Epps, Lillie 244 

Van Epps,Mrs. Levi 244 

Van Hoesen, Francis 226 

Van Hoesen, Margaret 226 



Van Hoesen, Maria 232 

Van Hoesen, Milton 232 

Van Hoesen, Oscar A 226 

Van Hoesen, Sarah J .226 

Van Hoesen William 226 

Van Ness, Glorianna 226 

Van Pelt Alexander 43 

Van Slyck, Samuel 279 

Van Slyck, Sarah 279 

Van Valkenburgh, L 53, 176 

Van Valkenburgh, Mrs. Eliza .... 195 

Van Vleck, Elizabeth W 265 

Van Vleck, Francis W 226 

Van Vleck, Luella L 226 

Van Vorst Cynthia 265, 267 

Van Vorst, Juliette 265 

Van Vranken Ida 244, 246 

Van Vranken, Lillie E 244 

Van Woert, Susie 21.2 ,213 

Vasey, Arma 195 

Vasey, Minnie 195 

Vasey, Mrs. Elizabeth 195 

Vasey, Nicholas 195 

Vast, Eva , . . . , 244 

Vaughn, Mrs. Anna J 195 

Vedder, Ada A 226 

Vedder, N. S 205 

Viall, Cora 226 

Viall, Frank P 226 

Viele, A I39> 3" 

Vincent, Jennie .244 

Vincent, John H 317 

Vincent, Marvin R 92 

Vines, Eli P 226 

Vines, Fannie C 226 

Vines, Mary 265 

Vines, Sophia, 226 

Viol, bass . 60 

Vipond, B 228, 229, 232 

Vipond, Leslie 244 

Vipond, Milton 244 

Vipond, Rosena .244 

Von Eck, Simon .273 

Vradenburgh, Mary 244 

Vrooman, Carrie F .226 

Wack, Anna 273 

Wack, M 200 



INDEX. 



377 



Wacker, Charles 273 

Wacker, Elisabeth 273 

Wacker, William 116 

Wade, R. T 308 

Wagar, Jerusha 244 

Wagar, W T illiam N 244 

Wagar, William N 246 

"Wager, D. P 244 

Wager, Emma „ 244 

Wager, J. K 295, 297, 298 

Wager, Leonard 195 

Wager, Mrs. D. P 246 

Wager, Mrs. Eliza 195 

Wager^ Mrs. Frances 195 

Wager, Paul 195, 204 

Wagner, Maria 273 

Wait, Lewis H 195, 204 

Wait, Mrs. Mary J 195 

Wait, Nancy 63 

Waite, Gay 226 

Walden, John M 317 

Waldron, E. D. . .139,214,215,226,311 

Waldron, Hannah 226 

Waldron, Sarah A 226 

Walford, Mrs. Anthony 164 

Walker, Henrietta 244 

Wall & Peckham 77 

Wallace, James 87 

Walworth, R. H 206 

War of 1812 31, 32 

Ward, Annie 265 

Ward, Charles 265 

Ward, Tillie 226 

Warner & Co., E 198 

Warner, Jane 253 

Warner, Jessie L 170, 171, 233 

Warner, Josephine 244 

Warner, Leonard J 249, 253 

Warner, Mary E 226 

Warner, Minnie 253 

Warner, William 201 

Warnken, Georgiana 273 

Warnken, H 268, 269 

Warnken, Herman 273,274 

Warren, Eliza 4 2 

Warren, Henry W 317 

Warrington, William 175 

Warwick, Emily 265 

Washburn, Cornelia 206 



Washburn, Sanford. . . .127, 282, 283, 
286, 289, 303. 

Wasson, Robert 42 

Waterbury, Emerson 195 

Waterbury, Mrs. Rose 195 

Waterbury, Sherman 195 

YVaterford 9, 37 

Waterman, Laura 13 

Waters, Hattie 226 

Waters, AVilliam 226 

Watervliet 134 

Watrous, Sarah M 195 

Watts, J 199 

Waugh, Bishop 70, 314 

Wayland, Francis 3 2 >33 

Wayman, Bishop 153 

Weaver, Annie 226 

Weaver, Archibald 199 

Weaver, Elizabeth .-265 

Weaver, James J 195 

Weaver, John M 286, 290 

Webb, Thomas 6 

Weibel, Eliza 273 

Weibel, John 273 

Weise, A. J 148 

Weld, J 200 

Weller, Catharine 244 

Wells, Alfred 244 

Wells, G. C '. .286, 293, 307 

Wells, I. M 199 

Wells, Mary 244 

Wells, Myra 226 

Wemet, Electra 226 

Wendell, Ida 212, 213, 253 

Wendell, Mattie E 212 

Wendell, Philip 208, 209 

Wendell, Philip I 212 

Wendell, Sarah 253 

Wentworth, Erastus. .68, 76, 177, 206, 
282, 283, 286, 293, 294. 

Wenzell, C. H 226 

Wesley, Charles I, 2,4, 319 

Wesley, John. . I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 80, 81, 
126, 319, 332. 

Wesson, Glecia 244 

West, Samuel 200 

Westchester 7 

Westervelt, Mrs. E 197 

Westervelt, Mrs. Sarah E 195 



378 



INDEX. 



Weston, Charles , 232 

Weston, George R 232, 233 

Weston, Joseph 228, 229, 232 

West Troy 17, 37, 49, 56, 57 

Wetherwax, Barney 83, 175 

Wetherwax, Cyntha 212 

Wetherwax, George. . . .208, 209, 212 

Whatcoat, Richard 133 

Whatleu, Samuel 198 

Wheat, Esther A. . . . 265 

Wheat, Theressa 265 

Wheeler, Addie 265 

Wheeler, Dennis 265 

Wheeler, Ella 212 

Wheeler, George 265 

Wheeler, Grace 265 

Wheeler, Jessie M 244 

Wheeler, Lafayette 265 

Wheeler, Laura 265 

Wheeler, May 265 

Wheeler, Maryett 265 

Wheeler, Mrs. M. A 213 

Wheeler, Mrs. N. A 169, 171 

Wheeler, Mrs. Orlin 267 

Wheeler, Orlin 265 

Wheeler, Sarah . 265 

Wheeler William 256, 257, 265 

Wheeler, Walter M 256, 257, 265 

Whipple, Henry 195 

Whipple, John B 195 

Whipple, Mrs. Ardell Y . . . 195 

Whipple Waters W 53, 182 

Whipple, William W . .43, 44, 46, 47, 
50, 53. 86, 105, 174, 175, 181. 

Whitaker, Ephraim 199 

Whitaker, John 200 

Whitbeck, Eliza 212 

White, Anna M 226 

White, Charles T 195 

White, George 212 

White, George A 195 

White, Henry S in 

White, James H 212 

White, John W 175 

White, M 293 

White, Mary 212 

White, Mrs. J. H 227 

White, Mrs. Sanf ord C 244 

White, Myron 286 



White, Palmer 195: 

White, Sanf ord C 244 

Whited, A 214, 215 

Whited, Al vinze . . . . . 226 

Whited, Florence A 226 

Whitefield, George 2, 5 

Whitehead, Henry 175 

Whitehouse, John H 265 

Whitehouse, Mary A 265 

Whitehurst, Elizabeth 253. 

Whitehurst, James 253 

Whiteman, Albert H. 195 

Whiteside, Edwin 286 

Whiteside, E. F 286 

Whyland, Madaline 195, 197 

Wickham, Annie 226 

Wickham, Lillie 226 

Wickwire, Margaret 265 

Widmer, Frederick .. 74, in, 303,335 

Wilbur, Ichabod 174 

Wilcox, A. D ....no, 139,176,182,311 

Wilcox, Flora L . . . 244 

Wilcox, Mary 226 

Wilkes, Alice 244 

Wilkins, Coles R 75 

Wilkinson, Mrs. E. P 253, 254 

Wilkinson, Thomas 226 

Willets, Daniel. 265 

Willets, Eliza . . 265 

Willets, Hannah 265 

Willets, Job. . 265 

Willets, John 265 

Willets, John H 265 

Willets, Lizzie 265 

Willets, Martha 265 

Willets, Mary 265 

Willets, Mary A 265 

Willets, Rosa 265 

Willets, Thomas 265 

Willey, Sarah 244 

Willey, Walter 244 

Williams, Alvin. .53, 77, 78, no, .127, 
129, 176. 

Williams, Charles 232 

Williams, Frank 232 

Williams, Jonathan T 102 

Williams, John A 291 

Williams, Minnie . .265 

Williams, Mrs. Martin 254 



INDEX. 



379' 



Williams, Susan H 279 

Williams 299; 304, 305, 308 

Williams, S. P 94, 286 

Williams, T. O. R 298, 299 

Willis, Ambrose 253 

Willis, Julia 244 

Willis, Margaret 265 

Willis, Mary J 265 

Wilson, Alice A 212 

Wilson, Anna 244 

Wilson, Anna M 244 

Wilson, Hannah S 226 

Wilson, Hattie 195 

Wilson, Julia 226 

Wilson, Minnie L 226 

Wilson, Mrs. Catharine 195 

Wilson, Mrs. Maria L. Dowdell . . 195 

Wilson, Mrs. Mary 195 

Wilson, Perry H 226 

Wilson, Ruth A 195 

Wilson, Thomas 195 

Windsor, Blanche 265 

Windsor, William 265 

Windsor, Zarina 266 

Winfield, Charles 279 

Wing, Mrs. Nannie 195 

Winne, Ann Eliza 266 

Winne, Daniel R 257, 266, 335 

Winne, Martha 226 

Winterbottom, Alice 253 

Winterbottom, George .253 

Winterbottom, Mrs. George 254 

Wiston, Mrs. Naomi 195 

Witbeck, Mary J 279 

Witbeck, Sarah 232 

Witchcraft, Methodist 16 

Witherell, Louisa 226 

Witherell, Roxy 63 

Witherspoon, Daniel 53 

Withey, Kesiah 244 

Wixon, Kate 226 

Woman 129 

Wood, Almira 226 

Wood, Hattie E 266 

Wood, Isabella C 244 

Wood, James B 92 

Wood, J. W ...234, 235 

Wood, James W 234, 244, 245 

Wood, Mary L 226 



Wood, Mrs. J. W 159, 245 

Wood, S. L 214, 215, 226 

Wood, Thomas 266 

Woodruff, Clara 1 226 

Woods, Fitzgerald's 134. 

Woodworth, George 92 

Woolfe, Catharine M 226 

Woolett & Ogden 68 

Woolsey, Ebenezer G 175 

Woolworth, Pamelia 195 

Wooster, J. N 256, 257, 266, 267 

Wooster, Minnie K 266, 267 

Wooster, Nettie 266 

Worden, Mrs. Mary 195 

Wright, Hannah 16, 17, 18 

Wright, Jemima 253 

Wright, John. . .16, 17, 18, 26, 46, 47, 
48, 53, 88, 174, 181. 

Wright, Lavina 253 

Wright, Lottie 112 

Wright, Mary A 212 

Wright, Mary L 226 

Wright, Nellie 244. 

Wright, Sarah A 226 

Wylie, Mrs. Thomas 253 

Wylie, Thomas 253 

Wyman, Jennie E 195 

Wy man John D 195 

Wyman, Lottie S 195 

Wyman, Mrs. Emma E 195 

Xander, Frederike 273 

Xander, G. J. .116, 268, 269, 273, 274. 
Xander, Magdalena 273 

Yates, J. F 291, 307 

Yetts, Nellie J 266 

Youmans, Burton 212, 213 

Youmans, Chester A 212 

Youmans, Isaac A 209, 212, 213 

Youmans, I. N , 208 

Young, Abner J 244 

Young, Annie M 266 

Young, Blanche 244 

Young, Carrie A 295 

Young, Eleanor A. ..... .63, 205, 206 

Young, Georgietta 226- 



380 INDEX. 

Young, Henry E 257, 266 Zahn, Ida .273 

Young, Mrs. A 246 Zangler, Lillian 212 

Young, Mrs. James 53 Zears, Jennie 226 

Young, Nancy E 244 Zeptner, Maggie 195 

Young People's Association 203 Zeptner, Mrs. Jane 195 

Yourt, Charlotte 244. 



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The Methodist. 
We have examined the collection and find it rich in melody, containing the 
best of the old tunes unmutilated, together with a very large number of new 
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The Christian Advocate. 
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Northern Christian Advocate. 
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friend, J. Hillman, Esq., of Troy, has done the Church great service in 
making the work what it is. 

North Western Christian Advocate. 
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lively and interesting, and thus more general?" is very fully answered by 
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Bishop J. T. Peck, D.D. 

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number of very valuable tunes and hymns, old and new, some of which I 
have never before seen published. Believing that the work will be useful, 
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reminiscenses, fair and pure, and warm, as when first inspired, — are not 
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The Guide to Holiness. 
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